New York seems to have a doguero on every street corner. Grant shares this Spanglish term for “a hot dog vendor.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Doguero”
Here in San Diego, we often find that Spanish and English are mixing in interesting ways.
Yes, indeed.
Did you know there’s a Spanglish word for a hot dog vendor?
A dogguero.
Dogguero.
Yeah, D-O-G-U-E-R-O.
I love it.
So it takes the English dog as the root and adds the Spanish agentive suffix.
Very nice.
Very nice.
Very cool.
If you have some Spanglish out your way, send it along.
I’d love to hear about it, 877-929-9673, or send it an email to words@waywordradio.org.
