Mexican

In Mexico toasted bread is pan tostado. A toast made with raised glasses is a brindis, and the verb is brindar.

Mexicans say vegano for a man and vegana for a woman. The word covers food, people and products with no animal ingredients, as in comida vegana.

Hair is pelo in everyday Mexican speech and cabello in more careful or written language. Both are normal. Cabello is common in shampoo ads and at salons.

In Mexico the flying animal is a murciélago and a baseball bat is a bate. Context makes it clear, since the two have no word in common.

WYD means “what are you doing”, and in Mexican Spanish the quick version is ¿Qué haces?

The noun “smoke” in Mexican Spanish is humo. The verb “to smoke” a cigarette is fumar, so you say No fumo for I do not smoke.

In Mexican Spanish “diamond” is diamante. A cut and polished stone in a ring is often called brillante. Say un anillo de diamantes for a diamond ring.

A box in Mexico is a caja. A small box is a cajita, and a cardboard box is a caja de cartón. You use caja for moving boxes, gift boxes and shoe boxes.

The usual word in Mexico is condón. Preservativo is the more formal term used in medical and official settings. In a pharmacy you can ask ¿tiene condones?

In Mexico December is diciembre, written with a lowercase d because Spanish does not capitalize month names.