1. Like a lot of regionalisms, the etymology of Bostal is something of a puzzle, and with little textual evidence to go on the best we can aim for is an educated guess.The Oxford English Dictionary plumps for a compound of two Old English words: beorh, meaning ‘hill’ (the origin of barrow), and stigel

2. Anglicisms and calques in upper social class in pre-revolutionary Cuba (1930-1959): a sociolinguistic analysis sulumen), which will be subsequently either abandoned for French loans, or will become regionalisms or archaisms--with some exceptions, like the Turkish-origin term oja (nail polish) which survived and it is still used, in spite of the