Re: Information on Spanish vocabulary variants

Ekkehard Dengler wrote:
Harlan Messinger schrieb:

Are there resources with detailed listings of words that vary across the
Spanish-speaking world--not just Spain versus Mexico--or lists that
focus on Puerto Rican idiosyncrasies? I'm coming across such Puerto
Rican vocabulary as "chino" for "orange" (the fruit), "guineo" for
"banana", "juey" for "crab", and the word for a drinking straw (which
I'm forgetting at the moment, but it's neither "popote" as in Mexico,
nor "pajita" as in Spain).

Do you mean "sorbeto"?

That's the one! :-) Thanks.

As for your main question: You could try searching a
CD-ROM dictionary for "(Puerto Rico)".

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