+742 It's weird how "sombrero" means "hat" but we think of a specific kind of hat, and "salsa" means "sauce" but we think of a specific kind of sauce, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

:) im a specific kind of hawt!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because they both mean a specific kind of hat and sauce....?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Funny thing is, the word salsa actually means sauce or gravy so it's even less specific.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So sombrero means just any random hat, you could be wearing a baseball cap and say you were wearing a sombrero?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Indeed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

som·bre·ro    /sɒmˈbrɛəroʊ; Sp. sɔmˈbrɛrɔ/ Show Spelled[som-brair-oh; Sp. sawm-bre-raw] Show IPA –noun, plural -bre·ros  /-ˈbrɛəroʊz; Sp. -ˈbrɛrɔs/ Show Spelled[-brair-ohz; Sp. -bre-raws] Show IPA. a broad-brimmed hat of straw or felt, usually tall-crowned, worn esp. in Spain, mexico, and the southwestern U.S. Use sombrero in a Sentence See images of sombrero Search sombrero on the Web Compare cowboy hat, ten-gallon hat. Origin: 1590–1600; < Sp: hat, deriv. of sombra shade; see somber

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Look in a Spanish-English dictionary.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually "gorra" means hat in spanish.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Both are words for hat. I took four years of Spanish in high school.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its actually not that strange, english does that with a lot of products, such as Chai tea, chai means tea, so its really tea tea when you think about it

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lol weird.

by Anonymous 13 years ago