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spic
Spic is an ethnic slur used in the United States for a person of Hispanic background.
==Etymology==
Some in the United States believe that the word is a play on their pronunciation of the English "speak."〔(Interactive Dictionary of Language ) Accessed April 12, 2007〕〔(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ) Accessed April 12, 2007〕〔(Esmeralda. When I Was Puerto Rican. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. )〕 The Oxford English Dictionary takes ''spic'' to be a contraction of the earlier form ''spiggoty''.〔 citing as an etymology ''Amer. Speech (XIII. 311/1 ) (1938) ‘Spiggoty’ originated in Panama during Construction Days, and is assumed to be a corruption of ‘spikee de’ in the sentence ‘No spikee de English’, which was then the most common response of Panamanians to any question in English. ''〕 The oldest known use of "spiggoty" is in 1910 by Wilbur Lawton in ''Boy Aviators in Nicaragua, or, In League with the Insurgents''. Stuart Berg Flexner, in ''I hear America Talking'' (1976), favored the explanation that it derives from "no spik Ingles" (or "no spika de Ingles").〔(Take Our Word for It ) June 21, 1999, Issue 45 of etymology webzine. Accessed January 16, 2007.〕 These theories follow standard naming practices, which include attacking people according to the foods they eat (see Kraut and Frog) and for their failure to speak a language (see Barbarian and Gringo).
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