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Enviado el: jueves, 28 de marzo de 2002 10:46 As far as the word gringo and the first time it was used is concerned, I have seen the word gringo in a Venezuelan, I think, chronicle of the 16th or 17th century, I think, As has been identified by others, the word has been used in America del Sur to refer to stranger for a very long time. to make a longer story short. Thomas D. Morin Hispanic Studies Director of Latin American Studies University of Rhode Island Kingston, R.I. 02881 Tel: 401 874 4706 401 789 0819 (casa) Fax: 401 874 4694 E-mail: morin@uri.edu.
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