31 January 2008

you start a car with a key

when we were in Iguazu, Nell took another of her bets (this became a theme with Nell).

in Spanish, there are two words that can be used for the english word here :
aqui (pronounced as in a key) - which means right here
aca (pronounced as in a car) - which means here as well but a little bit futher away

Nell had bet Nico that the second word for here and the second word for there were not used much.
The signs in the information centre proved her wrong.

But .. it gave us a name for the Citroen Picasso that we would be driving around in for the next 2 weeks or so.
Given that our last two cars had names derived from their licenses plates, and the Citroens license plate started with FGK (*!&# I know!) and we had the parental units in the car with us .. the Citroen was christened "ACA"


... and we all know that you start aca with aqui !

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