cultured linguistic norms of major cities of Ibero-America and of the Iberian Peninsula. The total number of anglicisms was about 4% among Mexican speakers of urban norms. However, this figure includes anglicisms that permeated general Spanish long ago and which are not particular to Mexico, such as buffete, "nylon", "dollar", hockey, , "rum", "railroad car", "buffer", and others. The results of this research are summarized as follows: Nouns are more likely to be loaned from English than other parts of speech. Anglicisms in general use: O.K. (), "(beef) steak", bye (), "checkbook", "click", "basketball", "baseball bat", "baseball", "boxing", "horn", clip, "closet", clutch, "cocktail", or shampoo (), "check", DJ (, disk jockey), romance, smoking or , "express", football (), "goal", hit, (homerun), jeep, jet, van, or knockout, "leader", or nylon, "overalls", "poundcake", "pie", "pudding", baby shower, rating or , "reverse", (rim), round (), set, shorts, show, strike ( or ), "sweater", pants, (tennis shoes), thinner, "super market", "folder", or tennis, "volleyball", vallet parking, and or whisk(e)y. Frequent Anglicisms: bar, (for Bermuda shorts), "beer", sport (type of clothing), switch. Moderately used Anglicisms: barman "waiter", King/Queen size, grill, manager, penthouse, pullman, strapless, or zipper. Some examples of syntactic anglicisms, which coexist with the common variants, are: Using the verb apply/applying. (, I applied to that university, instead of , I applied to this university) Using the verb to assume with suppose. (, I assume he is going to the party, instead of , I guess he will go to the party) Using the verb access with access to. (, Access our website, instead of , Access our website). See also Languages of Mexico Standard Spanish List of colloquial expressions in Honduras Notes References Further reading External links Jergas de habla hispana—A Spanish dictionary specializing in dialectal and colloquial variants of Spanish, featuring all Spanish-language countries including Mexico. Latin American Spanish—This is the universal and somewhat arbitrary name that is given to idiomatic and native expressions and to the specific vocabulary of the Spanish language in Latin America. Güey Spanish—Mexican slang dictionary and flashcards. Mexican Spanish slang—Several hundred words of Mexican slang and English meanings. Spanish dialects of North America