Day: March 31, 2017
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March 31, 2017
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
“The word saguaro originated in Ópata, a language spoken by peoples of the Sonoran Desert region of Mexico. It came into English by way of the Spanish spoken by the Mexican settlers of the American West. The very saguaros we see today may well have been around when the word was first noted, some 150 years ago –