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PoindexterOglethorpe

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16. Izquierda, the Spanish word for left. The direction.

Sun Dec 25, 2016, 11:05 PM

Dec 2016

There's something wonderfully exotic about it. Also, it is so unlike so many other words in Spanish, that I strongly suspect it's the word, or very close to the word, that was already in place in that part of the world before the overly of Latin occurred.

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