#60: It’s So Confusing…
When you are a native English speaker and you don’t have to learn any other languages to get by, it is easy to forget that some of the words we use in English come from other languages. So just because we use them in the English language doesn’t mean they have to be completely English…
We all know that Jalapenos is the word for a specific chili pepper in Spanish. But apparently, it wasn’t so obvious that the “H” we use when pronouncing the word comes from the traditional way of sounding out the “J” letter in Spanish…