Mexican Spanish always pronounces the and in such a sequence in the same syllable, a trait shared with the Spanish of the rest of Latin America, that of the Canary Islands, and the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, including Bilbao and Galicia. This includes words of Greek and Latin origin with such as and . In contrast, in most of Spain, the would form part of the previous syllable's coda, and be subject to weakening, as in , .
