el pelo or el cabello?
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hi guys, could you please inform me how we're supposed to use these two words. When do we have to use pelo? and when do we have to use cabello?
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updated Mar 12, 2014
posted by ekimgkc
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Pelo, hair. Cabello, hair on the top of your head.
updated Jan 19, 2011
posted by jeezzle
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well both are the same I think but in some countries like venezuela pelo means the hair of animals and cabello means the hair of humans ,,, One of my venezuelan frends told me this ..
updated Mar 12, 2014
posted by 00b055e0
You are absolutely right Jimmy. “Pelo” is non specific general terminology for hair…whether it be animal or human. “Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda”. “Cabello” is more specifically human bodily hair. - viejito, Mar 12, 2014
