Puertorro
n.— «If a puertorro—local slang for Puerto Rican—greets you with the invitation to play dominoes during Christmas or New Year’s Eve celebrations, consider yourself part of the family, said Calderon.» —“Throwing Down for the Holidays” by Aurora Rodriguez The Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) Dec. 24, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
She sells seashells by the seashore. Who is the she in this tongue twister? Some claim it’s the young Mary Anning, who went on to become a famous 19th-century British paleontologist. Dubious perhaps, but the story of her rise from seaside...
There are lots of creative names for the @, also known in English as the at-sign. In Denmark and Sweden, it’s sometimes called the snabel-a, or “elephant trunk.” In Italian, it’s a chiocciola, or “snail. In Greek...