However, in most of the Americas, and in the Canary Islands, the preterite is used for all actions viewed as completed in the past. It tends to be used in the same way in those parts of Spain where the local languages and vernaculars do not have compound tenses, that is, the Galician-speaking area and the neighbouring Astur-Leonese-speaking area. In most of Spain, the compound tense is preferred in most cases when the action described is close to the present moment:He viajado a (los) Estados Unidos. ('I have (just) traveled to the USA')Cuando he llegado, la he visto. ('when I arrived, I saw her')¿Qué ha pasado? ('What has happened?') Prescriptive norms would rule out the compound tense in a cuando-clause, as in the second example above. Meanwhile, in Galicia, León, Asturias, Canary Islands and the Americas, speakers follow the opposite tendency, using the simple past tense in most cases, even if the action takes place at some time close to the present:Ya viajé a (los) Estados Unidos. ('I [have already] traveled to (the) USA')Cuando llegué, la vi. ('when I arrived, I saw her')¿Qué pasó? ('what happened?') For some speakers of American Spanish, the compound tense can sound affected, bookish, or foreign. In Latin America one could say, "he viajado a España varias veces" ('I have traveled to Spain several times'), to express a repeated action, as in English. But to say El año pasado he viajado a España would sound ungrammatical (as it would also be in English to say "last year, I have traveled to Spain", as last year implies that the relevant time period does not include the present). In Spain, speakers use the compound tense when the period of time considered has not ended, as in he comprado un coche este año ('I have bought a car this year'). Meanwhile, an American Spanish-speaker is more likely to say, "compré un carro este año" ('I bought a car this year'). Vocabulary Different regional varieties of Spanish vary in terms of vocabulary as well. This includes both words that exist only in certain varieties (especially words borrowed from indigenous languages of the Americas), and words that are used differently in different areas. Among words borrowed from indigenous languages are many names for food, plants and animals, clothes, and household object, such as the following items of Mexican Spanish vocabulary borrowed from Nahuatl. In addition to loan words, there are