Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — Learning to Be Americans. [ARTICLE]

Learning to Be Americans.

Within a few years the younger generation of Porto Rico will speak English. Already the extent of their vocabulary is surprising. And in this respect the street arabs, due to their personal contact with the American soldiers, are far in advance, of their compeers. The bootblack calls “Shiner’ as in the United States, and the newsboy is no less vociferous and persistent in crying in English the name of the daily he sells. “No good,” as a condemnatory expletive, has fairly been adopted into the Porto Rican Spanish, as has “all right,” with an opposite significance.—Leslie's Weekly.