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From: dennis@cadkey.com (Dennis Paul Himes)
Subject: Re: Is Spanish going the way of French?
Message-ID: <1994Nov21.015119.17122@cadkey.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 01:51:19 GMT
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In article <3akuat$8ki@sefl.satelnet.org> humanist@sefl.satelnet.org (pagan) writes:
>I noticed that some Spanish speakers omit the end of 
>some words. For example, "vamo" instead of "vamos".

	Dropping of the final /s/ is quite common among Puerto Ricans.

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                Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@cadkey.com
 
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