Anyone speak Spanish ?

[venta]

I've just had an enquiry from my mother: someone in her office needs to know the meaning of the Spanish word "paqueña". Any ideas ?

I've tried a couple of on-line dictionaries, but they don't contain it. I don't know whether this means they're rubbish, the word is colloquial, or the word is jut plain wrong.

Thanks for any help.

Update: Thanks to a non-LJ source of help, I can now reveal that a Paqueña is a lady from La Paz. A Paqueño is a gentleman from that city.

Update2: And having ferried the information back, via the mother, to the original enquirer... it turns out that yes, they did want to know what "pequeña" meant, but typo'd when asking.

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[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Readability. I'd also suggest memorability, since I find it much easier to remember the entity names for accents than I find it to remember the ISO codes for all the permutations.

It's not really "aargh aargh", because nobody gives a stuff about the maintainability of LJ posts. So I'm not really complaining, just offering an alternative that some will prefer.