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To Booko took its name from a word: το μπούκο, the book, recorded among Greek Australians in Cairns. The Italian and Spanish dictionaries will be named the same way, by the people who speak them. Each shortlist below is built on words from the record.

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The Italian dictionary

The Italglish Project. Its shortlist is built on words Italian migrants made from English.

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Il Buccobucco · bookRecorded in the United States by Alberto Menarini (1947) and Lori Repetti (2009). In Australia bucu turns up inside ciecbucu, cheque book, in the Italo Australian word list on Wikipedia. Pairs with To Booko.Lu Bucubucu · book, with the final uThe form inside ciecbucu, cheque book, in the Italo Australian word list on Wikipedia. Not yet recorded on its own.La Fattoriafattoria · factoryA farm in standard Italian, the factory in migrant Italian. Recorded in Australia, Canada and the United States.La Giobbagiobba · jobRecorded in Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and taken home by returnees to Italy.

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The Spanglish Project. Its shortlist is built on words Spanish speakers made from English, with Australia given the same standing as the United States.

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La Loncheralonchera · lunchboxRecorded across the United States by John Lipski and Sara Pacchiarotti. Lipski notes that standard Spanish has no word of its own for it.El Jangueojangueo · a night out, from hang outRecorded as janguear in Puerto Rico by the Puerto Rican Literature Project glossary and by Reyes Tosta in 2019, and across the United States in Moreno Fernández’s 2017 survey for the Instituto Cervantes Observatory at Harvard.El Bildinbildin · buildingAn apartment block, not any building: the distinction Otheguy and Stern draw. Recorded among Puerto Ricans in East Harlem by Poplack and Sankoff in 1984.El Confleyconfley · corn flakesAny breakfast cereal, whatever the brand. Recorded in Miami in Bill Cruz’s Cuban-Americanisms, as reported by the Seattle Times in 1997.

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