This article was originally published on thebiglead.com as MLB team sells hats with vulgar Spanish word, doesn't get it before the internet does.

America’s love of Mexican food has implanted plenty of Spanish words into our everyday lexicon. But when not ordering a quesadilla or tamale at the local taquería, we may still be using Spanish ...

There are some words that simply feel truer in Spanish than they do in English. I call these home words and heart words because I associate them with the place I most grew up using them: at home ...

Let us teach you how to use a few Spanish words that have no English equivalent.

Linda Duann Rodriguez studies a list of over 1,000 Spanish words in preparation for the nation's first ever Spanish-language spelling bee in New Mexico.

It turns out, I'm not alone! After polling friends, family, and editors, I came up with 27 English words commonly used in Spanish — some of these will actually shock you. Did we miss any?

Latinos have grown up hearing someone be called "negrita" or "negrito," but the Spanish term, a diminutive of Black, stirs debate over whether it's a term of endearment or a legacy of a racist past.

Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language “Why are we using a word that is preferred by only 2 percent, but offends as many as 40 percent of those voters we want to win?” said one pollster.

In one of the studies reported in the paper, researchers recruited 32 young adults with no Spanish background to guess the English definition of certain Spanish words.

The concept behind the officially licensed hat design is simple enough: the team's primary logo overlaps its official wordmark, which runs in the background. None of these hats are easy on the eyes.