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Old 10-01-2009, 04:16 PM   #11
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Default Re: Spanish Words that mean different things in different Spanish countries.

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Originally Posted by fernandar
Sure. I first heard this in Miami where there is a large community of Cubans, as you may know. For them, Cubans, una guagua is a bus and in Chile apparently it΄s a baby.

In Ecuador guagua also means baby. I believe it comes from the Quechua language. In, I believe it was Puerto Rico, it means van.
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