through , run out , run on , run into , etc.), and, as we all know, memorization is more annoying than it is difficult. Similarities in verb tenses are really just the tip of the iceberg, though. As mentioned in ' Had Enough Anglicisms? ', Spanish and English take thousands of words from other languages, and the list of things that occur in both languages -- that one might suppose are unique to one's own tongue -- is endless. For example: words come back into fashion ( douche bag for 'idiot' (in U.S. English) / bondi for 'bus' in Argentine Spanish) eople play with words by turning them around ( vesre in Argentina / back slang in England) kids sometimes have a private code or 'language' (Pig Latin in English/ jeringoso in Argentina) eople make up their own words to use with their friends slang words often come from teenage speak, sports, and sectors on the fringes of society slang is used to reinforce or establish identity newspapers feature articles every year explaining new words to the older generations there is a tendency among English speakers to omit the "h" in unaccented words ('tell 'em I said 'ello'); in Spanish, many dialects have an aspirated "s" at the end of words and in certain other positions (' eh que ya noh vamoh ') speakers of standard British English don't pronounce the "r" after a vowel, while in a large number of Spanish dilalects the "d" dissapears in when positioned