old-Spanish dialect NM
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Yes, Gloria,
Estijeras is one word I remember. Also "muncho" rather than
"mucho". "Estenazas" I don't remember. My father, who spoke good Castellan and was from Zacatecas was always correcting her Spanish, and since we had learned the language from her and her family due to our separation during WWII, my sister and I just gave up speaking it, rather than be constantly scolded by Daddy. He also hated it when my mother would say, "Tu saves?" constantly. My husband thinks she meant to say "sin embargo" but she used "tu saves" instead. My husband says he remembers their accent more than anything else and the manner of speech: "hequia" for acequia, etc. Also, because of the invasion of Americans into their territory in the late 1840's, their speech included lots of Americanisms: Carro instead of auto, discear for disking the land, etc. Their accent I remember when they spoke English, was a slightly Spanish accented Western twang, like the American cowboys, and |
