English is a rich melting pot of words borrowed and adapted from languages across the globe. Many long, elegant, or even tongue-twisting English words have surprising backstories that trace back to ...

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Like a wandering sailor, the Latin root “porto” has a girl in every . .. well, port. “Porto” means “carry,” and this roamin’ Roman root has sailed into scores of English words, serving us both the ...

When it comes to Latin plurals, we English speakers have a time of it. It isn't just that we borrow without compunction from other languages, but in the process we anglicize those borrowed words in no ...

The Latinization of U.S. culture will step into the living room this fall with the debut of two telenovelas in English. Twentieth Television, a unit of News Corp., has already taped “Desire” in San ...

I am a first-generation American daughter of two Venezuelan immigrants. Spanish was my first language until I started preschool, where I picked up English from my peers and teachers. I felt pretty ...

Producer Aaron Levinson gives a history lesson on the cross-cultural phenomenon, which swept New York in the 1960s. Latin Roots: Boogaloo Producer Aaron Levinson joins World Cafe for a Latin Roots ...

For today's Latin Roots segment, Grammy-nominated record producer Aaron Levinson takes us back to the 1960s, when boogaloo and Latin soul ballads shared space on the radio. As more Puerto Ricans ...