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Expressions and vocabulary used by Chicanos today come from the pachuco argot of the 1940s.
Some of these idioms are the pachuco dialect, Chicano Spanish, New Mexico colonial Spanish, south Texas vocabulary, caló, and the argot of the tirilones of El Paso.
A great deal of argot appears to be ordinary language — not only in the English-speaking sunderworld.
Convicts shipped to Australia spoke a criminal argot described by James Hardy Vaux as flash language in his New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language of 1812.
A revised edition of half of The Argot also exists.