Asturian-American Migration Forum

I had some 45's that my Grandfather brought back from Asturias featuring Jose Gonzalez "Presi". Does anyone know where you could obtain some CD's of this singer?

My grandfather and father used that word quite a bit. Even my grandmother used it on occasion. I would take the meaning to be something like "What the hell?..." or "Jesus Christ almighty!...", but never a reference to anything sexual.

Very Funny Eli!!!......I've known some girls like that....of course never in the biblical sense.........WELL ALRIGHT DAMN IT!......I'LL CONFESS!!!...but I was drunk and VULNERABLE at the time.........and-and there was a FULL MOON....THERE!!!... YOU ALL HAPPY NOW???....jeez...

Art, earlier in this thread, Felix asked if this website receives any grant monies. Does it?

Otay, yunz may have some points........ But the fact is, most "languages" are just shall we say "evolving dialects gathering words from other dialects" for lack of a better description at this moment. Most words that we refer to as "profanities" in "our language&qu...

If indeed it is not spanish but a separate language, then why is 80% of it .....spanish.....?
20% to me hardly qualifies as a language. If so, try to TOTALLY
communicate everything on that 20%.
Do you consider the language as we speak it here in the States a SEPARATE language from english?

My grandfather always called water " wa-wa", instead of agua. My mother always thought that he picked that up in Cuba where he lived for a short time before coming to the states, not knowing that it was an Asturian dialect. We would call are grandparents " wel-lo" and " wel-...

Allow me to give you a partial list of dying languages: Italian, French, Sicilian, Swedish, German, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Albanian, Slovenian, Russian, Portuguese, Croatian, Serbian, Latvian, all languages of all Native Americans, most native languages of Africa, Korean, and so on and ...

At a website for Scottish surnames, I have found that the name "Buyll", Buylla sans the "a" meant "bull". So perhaps you are on to something.

I graduated from McKeesport Area High School in 1974. When I was little we would go to Donora to visit relatives there, usually Honorina Suarez who was my mother's aunt. The men would go to the Spanish Club there when we visited. I can remember many names and faces, some of which are no longer with ...

I'm sorry, but my father Oscar Buylla was from Donora, I grew up in McKeesport, Pa. I am 50 years old. I do remember Kenny Bilbao and Tony Menendez

I almost forgot, was Oscar Vega a relation of yours? According to the census he lived next door to my grandparents.

Thanks so much for this posting! It helps connect some of the dots. It lists all of my father's side of the family.

My father was Oscar Buylla. He was from Donora. Did you know him?
I am also related to Suarez's in Donora and Mckeesport thru my mother's side of the family, Artimez.

Barbara, December 25th is not Christ's birthday. Nobody knows the day that Christ was born...not even the pope. The 25th was an old Roman holiday. I'm an Athiest, and even I know that...