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World Service,5 mins

The hidden history of Spanglish in California

Boston Calling

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Walk the streets of Los Angeles these days and you won鈥檛 go far without hearing Spanglish 鈥� a hybrid of English and Spanish. Typically, it鈥檚 thought of as a contemporary phenomenon but a professor at Sonoma State University has traced the origins of Spanglish back to the 1830s. Image: A sign written in Spanglish declares that climate change is real at a rally in 2013. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

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