From a 1996 speech by Sonia Sotomayor, page 9:
When my first mid-term paper came back to me my first semester, I found out that my Latina background had created difficulties in my writing that I needed to overcome. For example, in Spanish, we do not have adjectives. A noun is described with a preposition, a cotton shirt in Spanish is a shirt of cotton, una camisa de agodon, no agondon camisa.
Now, for those readers who may know just a little high school Spanish, does this sound right? Spanish has no adjectives? And what about the spelling of algodón? (OK, we’ll ignore that one.)
See here.