Original sentence: According to the Spanish etymologist Joan Coromines, gringo is derived from griego (Spanish for "Greek"), the proverbial name for an unintelligible language (a usage found also in the Shakespearean "it was Greek to me" and its derivative "It's all Greek to me").Gringo (feminine, gringa) is a term in the Spanish and Portuguese languages used in some countries of Latin America to refer to foreigners from different cultures, especially from the United States, but also from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere, including in some cases other countries of Latin America itself.However, there is ample evidence that the use of the word predates the Mexican-American War.In the Caribbean (especially Cuba and Dominican Republic the term refers to U.Still, scholars are not in agreement about the correct origin of this word.There are many popular but unsupported etymologies for this word, many of which relate it to the United States Army in some way or another
Edited sentence: As a result of this phenomenon, several disputed etymologies exist for gringo.Gringo (feminine, gringa) is a derogatory term in the Spanish and Portuguese languages used in some countries of Latin America to refer to foreigners from different cultures, especially from the United States, but also from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere, including in some cases other countries of Latin America itself.In the Caribbean (especially Panama, Cuba and Dominican Republic the term refers to U.Though Joan Corominas cites date from before 1846, "gringo" has several popular undocumented and possibly folk entymologies which relate to the Mexican-American war—and other regions have their own notions of the word's source—consequently the origin of "gringo" is a continued source of linguistic debate.Though the Real Academia Española does not recognize his findings, the Spanish etymologist Joan Coromines asserts that gringo derives from griego (Spanish for "Greek"), the proverbial name for an unintelligible language (a usage found also in the Shakespearean "it was Greek to me" and its derivative "It's all Greek to me").Words adopted by several languages tend to evolve and change meaning to varying degrees over time; as such, words like gringo have separate meanings and etymologies depending on the individual and community using the word