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umanwizard
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French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?
Spanish does have a few exceptions, mainly due to loanwords from indigenous American languages. For example, it would not be possible to guess that the X in México is pronounced like Spanish J.
ivm
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México is because of the old orthography, before it was Don Qui
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ote too.
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