Biblioteca News

Biblioteca Publica de San Miguel, A.C.
Notice of Annual Meeting

February 26 / 11A.M. 
Insurgentes 25

Agenda:

1. Attendance

2. Quorum Call

3. Presidentīs Annual Report

4. Treasurerīs Annual Report

Word Watch
By Bill Gallacher

rentista (n.m) A noun derived from the verb rentar… to yield, or to produce. Un rentista is not someone who cannot afford to buy his or her own place, but rather a person of independent means. Someone who lives off interest, a bondholder, a coupon-clipper, if you like. People who live off unearned income are not universally admired, and if you are un rentista acomodado, (well-off), it may not pay to shout too loudly about it.

smoking (n.m) This word is in a class by itself and means tuxedo. Not only has smoking been lifted untouched from English, with the 'jacket' conveniently dropped, so-to-speak, but the English original has become virtually obsolete in its own tongue, making for the curious situation whereby English uses a Spanish word (tuxedo) and Spanish uses an English word (smoking) to describe the same object.