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            <font size=2 face="verdana, arial, helvetica">Sunday, 
                  October 21, 2001<br>
                  <h2><font color="#CCCCCC">46</font> Spanglish</h2>
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                    Some dismiss Spanglish, or Tex-Mex, the mixing of English 
                    and Spanish, as a bastard tongue. You are reading a bastard 
                    tongue. <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; "This phenomenon of language mixing, it doesn't 
                    only happen in South Texas," said Javier Villarreal, chairman 
                    of humanities and a Spanish professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus 
                    Christi. "Whenever we have two languages in contact, this 
                    is what happens." <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; In other words, isn't it nice that we have our 
                    own language in South Texas? <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; <font size=+1><b>A smattering of Spanglish</b></font> 
                    <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; ais crim (ICE-kreem) - ice cream <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; ayeteguacho (eye-te-WATCH-oh) - I'll see you 
                    later <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; balun (ba-LOON) - balloon <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; daime (DY-meh) - dime or money <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; dompe (DOHM-peh) - to take something to the dump 
                    <br>
                    &nbsp;&nbsp; el babipin (l-BAH-bee-peen) - bobby pin <br>
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