Spanish-English cognates that are spelled exactly the same in both languages Quiz

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Spanish-English Word Twins Quiz

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Created May 24, 2012 in Language
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	Mimbleton:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 16:06 GMT		-3 points
	!Ay Carnauba!

	DerekH:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 16:21 GMT		27 points
	How was I going to get 'colour' when the clue is misspelled? ;-)

	guyborab:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 16:22 GMT		7 points
	garage can be spelled "garaje" OR "garage" (particularly in parts of Latin America) so you need to change that one.

	mrlevin:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 16:27 GMT		7 points
	Yeah, banana is a bit misleading. For example, in Costa Rica, "banano" is the only acceptable form.

	truckee:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 16:40 GMT		16 points
	My Spanish is a bit rusty, but don't some of these have accents in Spanish? If so, would they still be "spelled exactly the same"?

	cynicallynaive:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 16:52 GMT		1 point
	To confirm what guyborab said about garage: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=garage

Bobman1:

Nov 2nd, 2012 at 16:53 GMT

5 points

Well now, two years of high school Spanish thirty years ago don't seem to have gotten me much farther than random guessing would have. Taco seems like a cheat to me as it's so obviously Spanish. At least a lot of the others are Latinate and you can kind of figure them out, or maybe not. But if you get Taco wrong, you may want to rethink your life.

	21_Guns:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 17:16 GMT		0 points
	I thought terrible in Spanish was spelled terible, with one r. Have I been spelling it wrong all these years of Spanish class? If so, uh oh.

	sunnyskates8:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 17:23 GMT		5 points
	always great to go the stat page and see that you got every one right EXCEPT the most guessed.

	guide:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 17:26 GMT		2 points
	The garage clue has been replaced with something universally wrong. Thanks for the spot!

	feedthebirds:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 17:39 GMT		14 points
	I said "banana" (by accident, instantly corrected myself) while shopping in a market and they told me jokingly that they had no bananas, only platanos.

	Gracieboo:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 18:28 GMT		1 point
	Somehow I knew terrible was correct but I also "knew" the rest of the words ending in a silent 'e' were wrong since in Spanish, the 'e' would be pronounced and they just didn't sound right.

	matt01:	Nov 2nd, 2012 at 23:50 GMT		2 points
	Where I'm from Color is wrong seeing as we spell it colour

	chriskotx:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 00:52 GMT		6 points
	I'm thinking that "el banano" is the term for the tree that produces "la banana". Which would make sense since Costa Rica has a lot of them. I know that's how it is with "la manzana" (apple) and "el manzano" (apple tree).

	unkpoker:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 03:00 GMT		4 points
	I agree with some of our non-US English speaking friends...the title should denote that this is American (US?) English spellings...

	object_holder:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 06:16 GMT		3 points
	"Taco" and "patio" are borrowings, not cognates. And "piano" is a borrowing from Italian in both languages.

	chronosaurus:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 15:26 GMT		2 points
	@truckee, as a Spanish speaker, I can confirm that none of the answers need accents.

	samcash13593:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 17:19 GMT		1 point
	So what is zero in Spanish? We never learned that in class.

	mitchymo:	Nov 3rd, 2012 at 20:17 GMT		-1 points
	If you are going to compare english and spanish, shouldn't you be using the traditional languages to keep it simple. Colour is not spelled color in traditional english.

	dancastro:	Nov 4th, 2012 at 14:11 GMT		2 points
	@samcash13593: it's simply "cero". There are no common Spanish words that contain "ze" or "zi"; these combinations only appear in some proper names or technical words like (Nueva) Zelanda or enzima. In all other cases the spelling is with "ce" or "ci", so zenith is cenit, zebra is cebra, etc. That's also why the plural of pez (fish) is "peces" and not "pezes".

	Dantelle:	Nov 5th, 2012 at 15:20 GMT		4 points
	Here in Germany (and I'm pretty sure in all other European countries aswell) we learn British English at school, so I join in with the "colour" fraction here.

	sausageandmash:	Nov 5th, 2012 at 23:05 GMT		3 points
	banana in spanish is not banana, it's platano

	8500sucres:	Nov 28th, 2012 at 03:51 GMT		3 points
	@sausageandmash: "Banana" is also correct in Spanish: http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=banana

	tonyt88:	Dec 24th, 2012 at 12:07 GMT		1 point
	Semejante is the more appropriate term. Similar is just bastardized spanglish to accommodate a common malapropism.

	Preguntero:	Mar 12th, 2013 at 03:46 GMT		1 point
	platano is plantain, banano is banana

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