Spanish-speaking

Former Ottawa mayor Larry O'Brien apologized Monday for using a derogatory term for Spanish-speaking people while he tweeted his thoughts from last Friday's U.S....

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Kemal Argon 2012

EthnicHeart: What about a Latin American Spanish-speaking HP?

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

St. Pius, known to its Spanish-speaking parishioners as “San Pio” occupies the corner of 19th Street and Ashland Avenue, and is a central feature of this Little Mexico, where street vendors sell paletas and pork rinds, and painted signs advertise lavanderías and tarjetas telefónicas.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Another parishioner describes St. Pius as “a common point in the Hispanic community,” and a place where the culture immigrant Mexicans have had to leave behind is nurtured and preserved: “This parish is Mexican, and it reminds you of your Spanish-speaking country.”

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Another special difficulty is that until very recently the GSS excluded Spanish-speaking respondents.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

A Latin-based language is much simpler to standardise, and the Spanish Academy works with the academies in all Spanish-speaking countries (including the Philippines and the USA) to produce guidance that is valid worldwide.

5 posts from September 2009 2009

Servers are dishing out food to a mostly Spanish-speaking clientele from the heating trays along the wall on the other side of the counter.

Flatiron Lunch: Latin American is a Good Sophie’s Alternative | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

I look at the face of Tawakkol Karman wrapped in what we in the Spanish-speaking tropics would call a rebozo, and I see a riff on the face of the Virgin of Guadalupe, she who adorned the banners of the Mexican Revolution 200 years ago.

Susan J. Cobb: The Inner Virgin Comes Out In Revolution Susan J. Cobb 2011

A second social and political factor is that the Dominican Republic – with its Spanish-speaking population of predominantly European ancestry – was both more receptive and more ­attractive to European immigrants and investors than was Haiti with its Creole-speaking population composed overwhelmingly of black former slaves.

Matthew Yglesias » Haiti 2010

That applies to the Spanish-speaking immigrant who just took the oath as much as to a patrician Bostonian who documents their ancestry back to the Mayflower.

Matthew Yglesias » GDP Decline From Peak 2010