English language – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Putañés

Is the term used for Fuck Patois by Carlos Mayor and Eduardo Iriarte in their Spanish translation of Tom Wolfe’ I Am Charlotte Simmons. (Via Taccuino di traduzione)

Pirates and Kleinecke’s etymology of “pidgin”

It is suggested that an old Spanish slang word has nothing at all to do with Dutch pirates but instead adds weight to David Kleinecke’s generally discarded South American etymology of the word “pidgin”.