Princeton's WordNet (3.00 / 2 votes) Rate this definition: safety (noun). the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions. insure the safety of the children; the reciprocal of safety is risk.
Conversely, the Spanish were also pronouncing it the same way, but with a different etymological origin! The Spanish understood the word âcoronelâ as the officer of the âcrownâ rather than that of the âcolumnâ. It is possible that both the French and the Spanish pronunciation affected the English one. The English had already begun to use the word âcoronelâ, which became bastardized by their accent to be pronounced as âkernelâ, with an open ambiguous ârâ in the middle overshadowing the âoâ.
Yeah, culo means butt in Spanish. Your teacher probably said that it could be taken as offensive in Mexico and Latin America becuase other Spanish-speaking countries have different dilects, intrepret some words differently, and use different words.