Word: halcones
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...answer, "We don't have any more minority spots," prompted Maria de la Luz Reyes and John Halcon to examine discrimination against Chicanos in the form of tokenism, taboos against "brown on brown" research--"men and women of color" writing on race issues--and inadequate preparation of teachers to deal with Chicano students...
...urges the amateur linguist to forget the vowels and concentrate on the consonants, those "fossils" in the evolution of any language. The German word Zunge, for instance, might mystify the uninitiated unless he follows Hogben's advice to substitute T for the German Z. Similarly with the Spanish halcon, which leaps into intelligibility with Hogben's advice to trade...
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