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Murray, Thomas E. 1996. Spanish loanwords in contemporary American English slang. In Rodríguez González, Felix, ed. Spanish loanwords in the English language: a tendency towards hegemony reversal (Topics in English Linguistics 18). Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 105–138. 
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Article in jnl/bk
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English
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The author’s primary goal in this chapter is to chart some of the previously unmapped territory regarding Spanish loanwords in contemporary American English slang. Towards that end, the author provides a basic glossary of 422 terms as well as some comments concerning the semantic and formal structure of those terms.
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