words that are pronounced the same in english and spanish
interlingual homographs
title: Spanish phonology text: clusters -"bt"- and -"pt"- in the words "obtener" and "optimista" are pronounced exactly the same way: Similarly, the spellings "-dm-" and "-tm-" are often merged in pronunciation, as well as -"gd"- and -"cd"-: Spanish has five vowels , , , and (the same that are found in Asturian, Aragonese, Basque and Leonese). Each occurs in both stressed and unstressed syllables: Nevertheless, there are some distributional gaps or rarities. For instance, an unstressed high vowel in the final syllable of a word is rare. Because of substratal Quechua, at least some speakers from southern Colombia down through Peru can be analyzed title: Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish text: comes to accentuation rules. A sequence of a semivowel adjacent to a vowel is by default assumed to be read as a diphthong (part of the same syllable) in Spanish, whereas it is by default assumed to be read as a hiatus (belonging to different syllables) in Portuguese. For both languages, accentuation rules consistently indicate something other than the default. A consequence of this is that words that are pronounced alike in both languages are written according to different accentuation rules. Some examples: Another consequence (though less common) is that some words are written exactly (or almost exactly) the same title: American and British English pronunciation differences text: and AmE. Generally, AmE is more likely to favor or , and BrE to favor . BrE , AmE (1) : "carbine", "Florentine", "internecine", "philistine", "pristine", "saline", "serpentine". BrE , AmE (1) (2) : "adamantine". BrE , AmE : "uterine". BrE , AmE (1) (2) (3) : "crystalline", "labyrinthine". BrE (1) , AmE (1) (2) : "strychnine". The title "Saint" before a person's name has a weak form in BrE but not AmE: before vowels, . These tables list words pronounced differently but spelled the same. See also the table of words with different pronunciation reflected in the spelling. Words title: Spanish grammar text: of English phrasal verbs rather than an inherent function of Spanish verbs or prepositions. The Spanish conjunctions "y" ('and') and "o" ('or') alter their form in both spoken and written language to "e" and "u" respectively when followed by an identical vowel sound. Thus, "padre e hijo" ('father and son'), "Fernando e Isabel" ('Ferdinand and Isabella'), "sujeto u objeto" ('subject or object'), "vertical u horizontal" ('vertical or horizontal'). The change does not take place before the "(h)i" of a diphthong, as in "acero y hierro" ('steel and iron'). Nor does the conjunction "y" change when initial in a question (where title: Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish text: "To a good listener, a few words are enough." There are also some significant differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese as there are between British and American English or Peninsular and Latin American Spanish. This article notes these differences below only where: Portuguese and Spanish share a great number of words that are spelled either identically or almost identically (although the pronunciation almost always differs), or which differ sometimes in predictable ways. Consider, for example, the following paragraph, taken from the , by Manuel Seco (Espasa Calpe, 1989), and compare it to the Portuguese rendition below, noting the lexical