North America

Mientras en Norteame¤  rica la colonizacio¤  n deposito¤   los ge¤  rmenes de un esp|¤ritu y una econom|¤a que se plasmaban entonces en Europa y a los cuales pertenec|¤a el porvenir, a la Ame¤  rica espan‹  ola trajo los efectos y los me¤  todos de un esp|¤ritu y una econom|¤a que declinaban ya y a los cuales no pertenec|¤a sino el pasado. Whereas in North America colonization planted the seeds of the spirit and economy then growing in Europe

—Maria¤ t egui,Jose¤   Carlos

   If the cardinal points of costume are Robes,Tato, Rig and Scunge, where are shorts in this compass? Theyare the never Robes as other bareleg outfits have been: the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava, the Mahatma's cotton dhoti; archbishops and field marshals at their ceremonies never wear shorts. The very word means underpants in North America.

—Murray, Les(lie Allan)