Rhyming slang all cases, omitting, from the end of the phrase, the secondary rhyming word (which is thereafter implied), making the origin and meaning of the phrase elusive to listeners not in the know. The form that is followed is made clear with the following example. The rhyming phrase "apples and pears" evolved to mean "stairs". Following the pattern of omission, "and pears" is dropped, thus the spoken phrase "I'm going up the apples" means "I'm going up the stairs". The following are further common examples of these phrases: Thus a construction of the following type could conceivably arise: "It nearly knocked
Caló (Chicano) eclectic and multilingual vocabulary. Caló, like Spanglish, makes heavy use of code-switching. Unlike Spanglish, Caló uses rhyming and, in some cases, a type of rhyming slang similar in Spanish to Cockney rhyming slang or African American Vernacular English jive. Since Caló is primarily spoken by individuals with varying formal knowledge of Spanish or English, variations occur in words, especially of phonemes pronounced similarly in Spanish: "c"/"s", "w"/"hu"/"gu", ’'r"/"d", and "b"/"v". It is common to see the word "barrio" (neighborhood) spelled as "varrio", "vato" (dude) spelled as "bato" or "güero" (blond/white man) spelled as "huero" or even "weddo". The translations should