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Eat, Donner, or is it Dunder? Damn Alzheimer! They are  Dasher ,  Dancer ,  Prancer ,  Vixen ,  Comet ,  Cupid ,  Donner , and  Blitzen . Santa Claus's reindeer are obviously magical since they can fly when pulling Santa's sleigh and are also supreme speedsters since they can go around the Earth in less than twelve hours. By the way, the word  reindeer  is one of those that remains unchanged in singular or plural form just like  shrimp  or  fish  for example.  It is said that the four reindeer on Santa's left side are all female (Dancer, Vixen, Cupid and Blitzen) and the four on the right are all males (Dasher, Prancer, Comet and Donner). Of course there is also Rudolph out front and center lighting the way with his "very shiny nose".  

Defined as a  Western   Christmas  tradition (we are not the only ones who celebrate Christmas) SECRET SANTA is a tradition which has the characteristics of a game and also of a ritual  . It is practiced anywhere (workplaces, schools or homes) and participation in it is usually voluntary. It involves the participation of several individuals related by bonds of friendship or just family. Randomly each of the members of the group is given a piece of paper with the name of one other member. He or she will send small presents to this other person without revealing who he or she is. By Christmas or before it, the participants gether together one last time to reveal who they were giving presents to and give one last big present. The Secret Santa tradition is truly a fun activity and it  helps reinforcing the ties within the members of the group. So the right term is SECRET SANTA and not SECRET FRIEND, direct translation of AMIGO SECRETO. 

Primarily SEDE in English is HEADQUARTERS. This interesting word is even more so because it ends with an S and yet it is a singular word (just like NEWS for example).                                                                                    We call a place HEADQUARTERS if it is the center of operations of some organization preferably a military one. VENUE can also be a rendezvous point. It was the other members who decided that Chicago would be the VENUE of our meeting. SEAT is another alternative. New York is the SEAT of the UNO. And yet LA SANTA SEDE, Vatican City, is said differently as well: THE HOLY SEE.                                                        

If I could make a wish I'd wish you were here with me now. The sentence above is one of the few examples when saying I'D WISH is correct. In general the most usual form is I WISH which is an equivalent to the Spanish word OJALA. I WISH, just like OJALA in Spanish, is used to refer to situations that you'd like to be real but are not, e.g.   I wish I knew means I don´t know but I´d like to. Similarly you can use I WISH to refer to things you would have liked to be real in the past but were not, e.g. I wish I had been there which   means I was not there but I'd have liked to. The problem is that English learners tend to believe Wish is just another verb and some use it accordingly and that is Wish preceded by the modal WOULD thus ignoring its most common form.

MOCO is said in two different ways.                                                                       If it is liquid it usually receives the name of SNOT as it is apparently happening to the little girl in the picture who is experiencing with her SNOT.  If your MOCO is solid then it is called BOOGER.  Curiously, in Spanish we make no distinction  between one  and the other.                                                                                                                                 ,                                                                                                                                                                 

A TERRON DE AZUCAR is what in English is called SUGAR LUMP. SUGAR LUMPS or SUGAR CUBES are that precisely, cubes of solidified sugar. Uncommon in Ecuador, they are actually quite common in the United States of America and Canada. The amount of sugar in a lump is approximately the same as that in a standard sugar spoon.                                                                                                   

"Me am unwieldy, so what?" We know the word HULK as the name of the Marvel superhero, but more than that it is a noun with other meanings.  HULK can be the body of an old or dismantled ship especially built to serve as a storehouse most of the times though in other occasions they have been used as prisons. These ships are no longer  considered fit for service obviously which is why the product of a wreck of a large size is also HULK or the HULKS (apparently the word also exist in plural form).  And the most important definition: someone or something that is bulky or unwieldy.