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Varela, Beatriz. 1996. Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English. 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. 139–156. 
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Article in jnl/bk
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English
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Abstract
In the everyday existence of Americans, Spanish loanwords, calques and phrases have a considerable frequency of usage. This paper is however limited to the study of ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin used in the English of the United States to refer to different races and nationalities.
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