NEW YORK (AP) — Spanish-language journalists can now learn that
the correct word for channel-surfing is ‘‘zapeo,’’ sexting is
best written in their language as ‘‘sextear,’’ ‘'submarino’’ is
an accepted term for waterboarding and Thanksgiving day is
accurately translated as ‘‘Dia de Accion de Gracias.’’    ‘‘I
think the media has a moral responsibility to use the correct
Spanish, because it is the only thing we can bequeath to future
generations,’’ Isaac Lee, news editor for the Spanish-language
television station Univision, said at the Monday presentation.
‘‘Our objective with this stylebook is to apply a universal
Spanish and counter the use of regionalisms that in many
occasions cause confusion,’’ said Jorge Covarrubias, a veteran
editor with the AP’s Spanish news service and among the authors
of the Stylebook.  Marjorie Miller, AP’s Editor for Latin
America and the Caribbean, called the reference book ‘‘an
essential tool’’ for Spanish language media, some of which she
said had tried to translate the E