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on American English
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish Spanish has influenced on American English almost
since the first British settlements on the Eastern
Coast of the nowadays United States. Even the firsteuropean man to be at the nowadays territory ofUSA was Juan Ponce de Len who discoveredFlorida in 1513 almost 100 years before Jamestown(1607). The first longlasting settlement was San
Agustin, also in Florida, founded by PedroMenndez de Avils in 1565. The influence on the language was at the beginning
limited to the new crops the Spanish conquerorsdiscovered in the New World.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish As for the ONLINE ETIMOLOGY DICTIONARY,
words such as: Tomato, Potato, Chile, Maize,Tobacco or Pimento go back to as early date asmiddle XVIIth century and first reference tochocolate is of 1600.
Those crops were new for Europeans and theyadopted the Spanish version of their originalnames in Nahuatl or Quechua.
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The in fluence of Spanish on American
English We should not forget that
Spain was the superpower foralmost two centuries, thosethat go from the beginning of
XVIth to the end of XVIIth. The attempt of Spanish King,and former King consort ofEngland, Philip II to invadethe British Islands during thereign of his sister in lawElizabeth I produced theentrance into English ofsailing related words such as:Armada, breeze, comrade orgalleon.
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The influence of Spanish on American
English From the British Isles,
these words passed to
the American Coloniessince the settlersneeded to cross sailingthe Ocean to the New
Continent. The PilgrimFathers arrived intoPlymouth,Massachussets, in 1621.
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There they found a land of wonders full of unknown
plants and animals such as: Puma, Condor, Mosquito,Llama, Iguana, Coyote, Zorro, Barracuda orCockroach from Spanish Cucaracha, quoted byCaptain John Smith as early as in 1624, while he was
in Virginia.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish Let us read what the Online Etymology Dictionary
says about the word: Cannibal
1550s, from Sp. canibal "a savage, cannibal," fromCaniba, Christopher Columbus' rendition of theCaribs' name for themselves (see Caribbean). Thenatives were believed to be anthropophagites.Columbus, seeking evidence that he was in Asia,
thought the name meant the natives were subjects ofthe Great Khan. Shakespeare's Caliban (in "TheTempest") is a version of this word, with -n- and -l-interchanged, found in Hakluyt's "Voyages" (1599).The Spanish word had reached French by 1515.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish According to Aleksander Chubarov, American and
British had been diverging from the moment the
first English-speaking settlers arrived in NorthAmerica
There were variations in American English whichwere unknown in Britain, and variations in British
English which were unknown in America Maybe it was because of Spanish, French and Native
American Languages influence as well as the hugedistance between both of them.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish As the West was hung, many words of Spanish
origin enhanced American English, since those
lands had belonged during centuries to the SpanishCrown.
We can see the Spanish colonial origin in manytoponyms throughout southern and western States,from Florida to California, and from Texas toColorado. Notice that even Alaska has some enclaveswith Spanish toponyms such as Valdez orMalaspina, after the seamen that discovered thoselands.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish At this time, many words from rural life and
cattle raising got into American English. Wordssuch as: Burro, Mustang, Caballero, Arroyo,Canyon, Chaparral, Commando, Desperado,Tornado, Fiesta, Guerrilla, Hackamore, Hombre,
Lariat, Lasso, Peon, Plaza, Ranch, Silo,Patio,Stampede or Temblor for Earthquake orthe gallant Senorita for Young Lady.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish The last important source of Spanish vocabulary
into the USA has been the work of Nobel Price of
Literature, Ernest Hemingway since it is wellknown his possition on defending Spanishculture. The online Etymology Dictionary proves
as his the introduction of words and expressionssuch as : Fifth column, salud, nada, cojones orMargarita (for the famous cocktail after RitaHayworth).
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish But since a Language is a living entity, this is not
the end.
There are many words of Spanish origin that areprogressively infiltrating in American ordinarylife, maybe because of Latin immigration intothe USA. Other words related to ethnical dishes
which are popular are: cerveza, quesadilla, salsa(for both: sauce and Latin Jazz), burrito,chimichanga, fajita, jalapeo, guacamole.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish Here we should add those related to cultural
expressions, dance and music.
Words such as: Mambo, Bolero, Salsa,Flamenco, Fiesta, Matador, Macho andMachismo have become popular in nowadaysconversations.
Let us see what the Online English EtymologyDictionary says about Lolita, which is diminutivefor Spanish christian name Dolores (Lola).
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish Lolita
fem. proper name, dim. of Lola. Title and nameof character in the 1958 novel by VladimirNabokov (1899-1977) about a precociousschoolgirl seduced by an older man; by 1960 the
name was in widespread fig. use.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish This influence is not only limited to Lexic, but it
is also spread to grammar constructions.
Nowadays is becoming more and more usual tohear double negatives in American English, like:I dont want nothing, what is a loan translation
of Spanish expression: No quiero nada.
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According to Wolfram and Schilling-Estes, in
Chicano English, the reduction of consonant clustersat the end of words is more than in other vernaculardialects which can partly explain the amplitude ofthis feature in the text of Of Mice and Men, thatNobel Prize John Steinbeck situated in SouthernCalifornia, where the Spanish influence has alwaysbeen strong.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish Vernacular language has a tendency to use
regularized forms instead of irregular forms asshown before with regularized past tense formknowed. Same phenomen can be seen with reflexivepronouns (Marckwardt 152, Wolfram and Schilling-Estes 189). Myself, yourself and ourselves begin withthe genitive pronouns my, your and our, whereashimself and themselves begin with the object formshim and them (Marckwardt 152). VernacularEnglish can insert the genitive form also into thirdperson as in the following sentence from Of Miceand Men.
This ol dog jus suffers hisself all the time.(49)
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish According as well to the same authors, Many
vernacular dialects in the United States use astructure called double negative-or multiple
negation or negative concord (Wolfram andSchilling-Estes 52). Of Mice and Mentoo hasseveral examples of having two negative markers inone sentence. These double negatives are used by allthe characters in the book, even the boss at theranch.
Well, we aintgot no ketchup.(8) Bien,nonosquedanadade ketchupThey dontbelong no place.(15) Nopertenecen aningnlugarIt wasntnothing.(42) Nofue nadaor Nopas
nada
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish To all this we should add the increasing income
of regional Latin expressions, specially in some
suburbs of New York, Miami or Los Angeles, andthat have, mainly, Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Ricoor the Dominican Republic) or Mexican origin.
It is quite common there to hear expressions
quite difficult to translate such as: Pana thatwould be similar to friend, comrade or buddy (aNorthamerican word)/mate (a British word)
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish According to Robert Manzanares, Councelor for
the American Embassy in Spain, The Spanish
language in the United States is not only alanguage of immigrants, it is also the mothertongue of the Puerto Ricans, who are USAcitizens...It is estimated that for 2050 the
hispanic population in the USA will be of 100million, about the fourth of the total. http://juantornoe.blogs.com/hispanictrending/
2006/05/el_futuro_del_e.html
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish According to Atanasio Herranz, from the
Honduran Academy, The Spanish in the USA
acquires the characteristics of total, global,neutral language; a standard dialect, a uniquevariety of sinthesis, not of control of a dialectover another and that tends to understanting
and negotiation.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish Nowadays, the USA have got the second most
important Spanish speaking community in the
world after Mexico, and before Spain, Colombiaand Argentina.
It is also the second most spoken language in the
city of New York, the most studied foreignlanguage and the mother tongue for more thantwo million of its inhabitants.
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The influence of Spanish on AmericanEnglish It is also the second most spoken language in 43
states of the USA as well as the District of
Columbia. Besides, many of the USA institutions apply
bilinguism as a rule on their web-sites, such as
The Government, The White House or theNational Medicine Library.
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New Mexico is one of the few states where there
are non-immigrant population whose mothertongue is Spanish, however, the Spanish is notone of the official languages of that state.
Josep Antoni Bravo i Sbies
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