Polyrhythm and the Caribbean
In the introduction to his Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Richard Allsopp . and scores of Central American Spanish loan-words -- habanero, panades, .
http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/themes/rhythm/language2.html

International Englishes-- English in the Caribbean Region: A ...
Allsopp, J. "French and Spanish Loan Words in Caribbean English." English Today 29(1992): 12-20. Alsopp, Richard. Why a Dictionary of Caribbean English .
http://www.wright.edu/~martin.kich/IntEng/Caribbean.htm

Spanish Loan Words — Infoplease.com
English Borrows from Spanish. . meaning white potato in the Inca language, Quechua; and batata, sweet potato in the Taino Indian language of the Caribbean.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/spanishwords1.html

Spanish Loanwords in English
Following is a list, by no means complete, of Spanish loanwords that have assimilated themselves into the English vocabulary. As noted, some of them were .
http://spanish.about.com/cs/historyofspanish/a/spanishloanword.htm

List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia, the free ...
. words whose origin can be traced to the Spanish language as "Spanish loan words". . Most these words came to English from Castilian and American Spanish . Caribbean: from Spanish Caribe, from name of Carib Indians of the region.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Spanish_origin