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On the subject of whether Mexican Spanish resembles "Spanish" Spanish, I can tell you that Cajun French is not at all identical to "French" French. For instance, in French, to say "I don't know" you might say "je ne c'est pas" - but in Cajun it is "pa ca ne." In French, a potato is "pomme de terre" (apple of the earth) but Cajuns just say "potat." Despite that, some of the odd-sounding names in south Louisiana really aren't French despite their spelling. That is because a little bit of Choctaw filtered in. So when you hear about the Bogue Falaya River or the Bogue Chitto River, those are actually Choctaw, not French or Cajun French, for Black River and Black Squirrel. So... what's in a name anyway?