Mexican

In Mexico a polite way to say “tipsy” is alegre. More plainly people say medio borracho for half drunk.

In Mexican Spanish a “kettle” is tetera. For an electric kettle people also say hervidor eléctrico, and for a stovetop kettle with a whistle tetera.

In Mexico “tree” is árbol. The accent is on the first syllable, AR-bol, and the plural is árboles.

In Mexico you say Buenas tardes from about noon until it gets dark. A short Buenas also works between neighbors.

In Mexico a bed is a cama. The bedroom is a recámara, where Spain would say dormitorio. Sizes are cama individual, cama matrimonial and cama king size.

The correct word for stomach is estómago. In everyday talk Mexicans say panza for the belly, as in me duele la panza.

In Mexico peanut butter is crema de cacahuate, and mantequilla de cacahuate is also understood. Maní is the word for peanut in South America.

In Mexico a chilli is chile, spelled with one l and ending in -e. Picante means hot or spicy, and a hot sauce is salsa picante.

Good is bueno in standard Spanish, and Mexicans add the slang chido or padre for something cool. Qué chido and Está padre mean that is great.

A grape is an uva in Mexican Spanish, and the fruit is usually sold as uvas by the kilo. Raisins are pasas or uvas pasas.