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Evening Star, Issue 19197, 13 March 1926, Page 21

One piece of American-Snanish slang used by the Prince of Wales at the Argentine Club dinner in London has an interesting origin. He referred t«r himself as a “gringo innocente,” or innocent foreigner. " Gringo I,s not a Spanish word at all, but a corruption of English. In the Mexican War the American soldiers marched singing, for some inscrutable reason, Burns’s ‘ Green Grow the Rashes o.’ The Mexicans called them, therefore, “gringos,” and this afterwards became general slang for foreigner.

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