Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
SPANGLISH
is the blend name recently given to the Spanish-English mixture (of both vocabulary and syntax) spoken by native speakers of Mexican or other Central American and Caribbean Spanish descent who live and work in Southern California, the other states bordering Mexico, and in Florida and certain northern urban centers. This name may originally have been derisive or jocular, and it is now slang in the general language, but it is widely understood by linguists as a technical term describing some dialects, one or another of which may be for some Hispanic-Americans their native language. Some linguists and Mexican-American commentators argue that the term properly applies only to the language of some Mexican-Americans, not to Puerto Rican and other Caribbean people from Spanish-speaking nations. See also PIDGIN; PIDGIN ENGLISH.
