The Intuitive Reasonings of Jessica

In Spanish class today, we had to finish the sentence "Con un millón de dolares yo..." (If I had a million dollars, I...), and one of the guys said he would invest in the "stock markito". My TA, slightly exasperated at the young man's ignorance (the correct word is "la bolsa"), said "Why does everyone think they can put -ito at the end of a word to make it Spanish?" We all laughed knowingly because everyone who has ever taken Spanish (and some people who haven't) are guilty of speaking "Spanglish". And, making up words is fun :-). Then my TA told us that is Spanish-speaking countries, they make words "American" by adding -tion to the end. Isn't that interesting? We don't have that many -tion words, but it is an ending that is unique to English. (I think. Does anyone know of any other countries that use that suffix?)

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