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  2. Naming customs of Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).

  3. List of Spanish monarchs - Wikipedia

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    On 1 October 1936, General Francisco Franco was proclaimed "Leader of Spain" (Spanish: Caudillo de España) in the parts of Spain controlled by the Nationalists (nacionales) after the Spanish Civil War broke out. At the end of the war, on 1 April 1939, Franco took control of the whole of Spain, ending the Second Republic.

  4. Perfective aspect - Wikipedia

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    Languages may mark perfective aspect with morphology, syntactic construction, lexemes/particles, or other means. Older Germanic languages: the aspect prefixes ge-(in Old English), gi-(in Old Saxon and Old High German), and ga-(in Gothic) indicate perfective aspects of verbs.

  5. Metathesis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Metathesis may also involve interchanging non-contiguous sounds, known as nonadjacent metathesis, long-distance metathesis, [1] or hyperthesis, [3] as shown in these examples of metathesis sound change from Latin to Spanish: Latin parabola > Spanish palabra "word" Latin miraculum > Spanish milagro "miracle" Latin periculum > Spanish peligro ...

  6. 2008–2014 Spanish financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    Unfinished buildings due to the crisis in A Coruña.. The residential real estate bubble saw real estate prices rise 200% from 1996 to 2007. [19] [20]€651 billion was the mortgage debt of Spanish families in the second quarter of 2005 (this debt continued to grow at 25% per year – 2001 through 2005, with 97% of mortgages at variable rate interest).

  7. Louis I of Spain - Wikipedia

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    Clarke writes: "the Spanish heir was as into boys as girls during the parties that he had, playing erotic games with both sexes"; a line about Louis' sexual life was sung across streets of Madrid: "Fiery as his mother, lascivious as his father, flaming as his stepmother and onanist as a pedophile".

  8. Pronunciation of English ng - Wikipedia

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    In Old English and Middle English, any ng sequence stood for two sounds: the velar nasal [] followed by the voiced velar stop [].The velar nasal did not have a phonemic status, being a mere allophone of /n/, as in Spanish or Italian (or as in Modern Standard English in words such as Bengali or Vancouver, where there is a free variation between an alveolar nasal and a velar nasal).

  9. Filipino name - Wikipedia

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    They most commonly blend the older Spanish system and Anglo-American conventions, where there is a distinction between the "Christian name" and the "surname". The construct containing several middle names is common to all systems, but the multiple "first" names and only one middle and last name are a result of the blending of American and ...