Bayle in the New York Times

[Wilson Gray]

Thanks for the info, Chris! I was afraid that people were going to say
that there's no such word, since I can't remember where or when I came
across it, except that it was about fifty years ago in some grammar or
another book in or about Spanish and I haven't come across it since.
Now,  I wish I'd had the 'nads to leave out "little-used," which I
added only to CMA.

-Wilson

On 7/9/07, Chris F Waigl <chris at lascribe.net> wrote:
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> David A. Daniel wrote:
> > FIW, there's the little-used Spanish _estadounidense_.
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> > -Wilson
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> Er, little-used? Not in Spanish Spanish, where I am quite convinced it
> is more accepted than the French "états-unien". People around me use it
> as the standard adjective and noun denoting a US citizen.
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> Chris Waigl
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