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 it appeared everywhere. So with certain Chinese and Japanese words that have, within late years, entered the general speech from the speech of California. New York has been the port of entry for most of the new Yiddish and Italian loan-words, as it was the port of entry for Irishisms seventy years ago. In Michigan the natives begin to borrow from the Dutch settlers and may later on pass on their borrowings to the rest of the country; in the prairie states many loan-words from the Scandinavian languages are already in use; in Kansas there are even traces of Russian influence.

In the Philippines and in Hawaii American naturally shows even greater hospitality to loan-words; in both1 places distinct dialects have been developed, quite unintelligible to the newcomer from home. Maurice P. Dunlap offers the following specimen of a conversation between two Americans long resident in Manila:

Here we have an example of Philippine American that shows all the tendencies of American Yiddish. It retains the general forms of American, but in the short conversation, embracing but 41 different words, there are eight loan-words from the Spanish (hola, amigo, porque, ese, señorita, lavandera, cuanto and paseo), two Spanish locutions in a debased form (spera for espera and no kerry for no quiero), two loan-words from the Tagalog (komusta and kayo), two from Pidgin English (chow and chit), one Philippine-American localism (conant), and a Spanish verb with an English inflection (hablaing).