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What's EMBALMING in Spanish?

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"Oh, the eternal rest! Great after such an EMBALMING experience!" EMBALMING is basically the preservation of a dead body. Unlike Mummification, EMBALMING does not require any organ to be extracted. In fact, the whole body is preserved and in some cases, the process, which requires more than just injecting a  fluid in the corpse, is so perfect that the dead people look pretty much as they looked before dying and seemed to be asleep. EMBALMING is EMBALSAMAR in Spanish.

What's LAYOVER in Spanish?

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When a LAYOVER becomes a Sleepover A LAYOVER is a stop or tranfer from one plane to the next in your flight itinerary. It's similar to a Stopover, but it's not necessarily the same. LAYOVERS can last thirty minutes or up to five hours. Beyond that the term Stopover is more often used. In Spanish we don't have any specific word for what a LAYOVER is since we make no difference between a LAYOVER and a Stopover. They are the same: one is shorter, the other is longer. For both we use the same word, ESCALA.