APB: Non English Language Slang

[Joanne M. Despres]

You could also try trawling through the glossaries of these books
for American Spanish slang:

Ilan Stavans.  Spanglish:  The Making of a New American
Language.  Harper Collins, 2003.

Bill Cruz.  Official Spanglish Dictionary.  Fireside/Simon &
Schuster, 1998

Michele Wucker.  Why the Cocks Fight:  Dominicans, Haitians,
and the Struggle for Hispaniola. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Esmeralda Santiago.  When I was Puerto Rican. Vintage/Random
House, 1993.


Joanne
Joanne M. Despres, Senior Editor
Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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