Texas

[SoCalSpursFan]

The name Texas comes from the indian word TEHAS, meaning "friendly."

[Trainwreck2100]

The name Texas comes from the indian word TEHAS, meaning "friendly."

Try TEJAS, in Spanish the j is pronounced like our h, what kind of southern californian are you?

[ashbeeigh]

When did everyone learn this??? I'm going with pre-k.

[AlamoSpursFan]

My 7th grade year, we had a new student who transferred in from New York City. I enjoyed the HELL out of our STATE MANDATED Texas History class...

:lmao

[Mr Dio]

Prob K or 1st grade.

[spurs=bling]

Pre-K forums

[Mr Dio]

Blingy, you're in mid school right? Do they still teach that in 7th grade?

[spurs=bling]

I'm in high school. And they taught us about Texas History in the 5th grade.

[Mr Dio]

OK..............uhhhhhhhhhhhh..................... .well done!
Do they speak spanish where you're from?

[spurs=bling]

Chingaos, Dio you always ask stupid questions.

[Mr Dio]

Heyyyyyyyyy, tranquilla mija....................I'm jess playin'!

[tlongII]

I did not know that.

[AFBlue]

Ahh San Diego....which of course in German means "a whale's vagina..."

[Please_dont_ban_me]

I'm in high school. And they taught us about Texas History in the 5th grade.

Really?

Only thing I remember about 7th grade was learning the multiplication tables. :D Texas History was more middle school...7th grade'ish for us.

[MoSpur]

Tejas means friends I think like mentioned above. Tejanos means Texans. Tejas is Texas in Spanish.

[1369]

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Yes, Pete, it is. In fact , it's pronounced "mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land."

[Jelly]

I've read many places where "Texas" is actually of Aztec origin which the Spanish adopted.

[Extra Stout]

The name Texas comes from the indian word TEHAS, meaning "friendly."
Thank you, Captain Obvious.

[Extra Stout]

I've read many places where "Texas" is actually of Aztec origin which the Spanish adopted.
Caddo, not Aztec.

[Extra Stout]

Tejas means friends I think like mentioned above. Tejanos means Texans. Tejas is Texas in Spanish.
In Mexican Spanish X and J make the same sound and are interchangeable. In Castilian Spanish the letter X makes a much harder sound, like German "CH," and it is this latter sound that was transcribed from the Caddo language.

This same linguistic anomaly gave us the word Chicano, which is nothing but a shortened form of "Mexicano." In the dialect of certain Mesoamericans, Mexico is pronounced "Meh-shi-co," so often pure-blooded Amerindians in Mexico called themselves "Meshicanos." White and Mestizo Mexicans mocked their pronunciation by calling them "Chicanos." Since a lot of our migrant workers tend toward a more Amerinidan ethnic background, that term emerged up here as well, and in fact became a term of self-identification for Latino activists back in the '60s and '70s.

[SoCalSpursFan]

Try TEJAS, in Spanish the j is pronounced like our h, what kind of southern californian are you?

According to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, it's Tehas. Talk to Uncle J bout it.

[AFBlue]

I guess I live in a whale's vag

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You stay classy...

[ShoogarBear]

Si means yes.

[baseline bum]

culo peludo means hairy ass
cabron means friend

[ShoogarBear]

Gracias, mi cabron con culo peludo.

[baseline bum]

¡No me estes chingando!

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Oddly enough, today is Texas' Independence Day, so go out with all your tehases and fuego your pistolas in el airo.

[Shelly]

When I moved to SA 10 years ago, it took me a while to figure out where this "Bear County" was that I always heard about in the TV news.

How should it really be pronounced? Bay-har? Beh-air?

Help a gringa out!

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try Bek-zar