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Órale, we’re going to continue focusing on words that come from the Romaní of Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. This episode’s feature is chalado. It means to be crazy in both Iberian Romani and Rio Grande Caló. Chalado is both an adjective and a noun. So you can be chalado and a chalado. No problem liking or even befriending a chalado. But you better be en garde should you find yourself navigating a complex or delicate situation with them in the picture. That quirk could lead to a bad result if you’re not careful.

“The past,” it's famously been said, “is a foreign country.” But the deep human past is better described as another continent. We humans have had the same…

In 1894, a 22-year-old Texas Ranger named Everett Townsend was tracking stolen mules when he arrived at the South Rim of the Chisos Mountains. He looked…

The return of desert bighorn sheep to West Texas is one of the state's marquee conservation stories. These majestic animals had been eradicated here by…

Órale, the Caló word of today is sonsear. It’s a verb meaning to act dumb or wonder about aimlessly. It comes from the Iberian adjective zonzo, or sonso.…

Today we continue with an important root word in Caló that’s come in up previous episodes: madre. We’ve already used madre for two other expressions:…

“These are the days of miracle and wonder, and don't cry, baby, don't cry.”Those lines from a Paul Simon song resonate in a time of unprecedented and…

Órale, the expression 'dale shine' is the feature for this episode of Caló. The literal translation is "make it shine or stand out." But what it means is,…

Órale, chiva is the word for this episode of Caló. In Spanish, it means "goat." In Caló, it means "stuff," as in "my stuff" or "their stuff." It invokes a…

Henderson Pueblo, on the plains near Roswell, New Mexico, initially appeared as nothing more than a “serpentine line of rocks.” But in excavations, archeologists unearthed a substantial prehistoric village, whose residents built an economy tied to communal hunting and long-distance trade of bison goods.