Rhyming slang and toad" (the main road) and "apples and pears (stairs), as well as many more obscure examples, e.g. "Battle of the Nile" (a tile, a vulgar term for a hat), "Duke of York" (take a walk), and "Top of Rom" (home). It remains a matter of speculation whether rhyming slang was a linguistic accident, a game, or a cryptolect developed intentionally to confuse non-locals. If deliberate, it may also have been used to maintain a sense of community, or to allow traders to talk amongst themselves in marketplaces in order to facilitate collusion, without customers knowing what they were saying,
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