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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2013 December 17

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    This is for the article list of ethnic slurs which includes terms like the (of Yiddish/German origin) schwartze because they are used and found in English language sources. Something like: "a word meaning eggplant in Sicilian which is used by Italian-Americnas as an insult to blacks" from a source better than Urban Dictionary.

  3. Category:Italian words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is for articles about words and phrases from the Italian language. This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves . As such almost all article titles should be italicized (with Template:Italic title ).

  4. Riocontra - Wikipedia

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    In spite of insufficient education and non-standard use of the language, Riocontra speakers have produced a rich lexical repertoire. The passage from the official language to Riocontra occurs as mentioned mainly through the inversion of the syllables, but also with the change of the last vowel and truncation and elision in the last vowel of the neologism formed.

  5. List of sports idioms - Wikipedia

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    See English language idioms derived from baseball and baseball metaphors for sex. Examination of the ethnocultural relevance of these idioms in English speech in areas such as news and political discourse (and how "Rituals, traditions, customs are very closely connected with language and form part and parcel of the linguacultural 'realia'") occurs.

  6. How Polari, the ‘lost language’ of gay men, inspired much of ...

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    Paul Baker, author of “Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men,” wrote that the language emerged in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatized groups, which made it a popular option for ...

  7. abaco - abacus; abat-jour - bedside lamp; abate - abbot; abbacchiato - depressed/down; abbacinare - to dazzle; abbacinato - dazzled; abbagliante - dazzling

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  9. Category:Italian slang - Wikipedia

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