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  • Jesperson, Language 20.4: “Panamanians, when addressed, used to reply ‘No spiggoty (speak) Inglis’”
  • spigot: a vent-peg on a beer barrel
  • Spiggoty: (US slang) a derogatory American slang for a person from a Spanish-speaking country in South or Central America or a Spanish-speaking community in the USA. Spanish-American, a foreign language
  • Spaghetti
  • Anglais: (French) English
  • Angles: along with the Saxons and Jutes, one of the Germanic invaders of Britain who were the ancestors of the English
  • do you speak English?