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It can be quite surprising to understand that the words buckaro and vaccine are actually derived from the same source inasmuch as a buckaroo is a casual way of identifying a cowboy and a vaccine is a substance that can be used to prevent disease. The word buckaroo might not be easily recognizable at first as a borrowing into English of the Spanish word vaquero, which in Spanish refers to a cowboy. The initial letter v in Spanish is pronounced with two lips rather than the pronunciation with the upper front teeth and the lower lip of the English v and can sound more like the letter b than the letter b



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