Well, kind of. The word “jean” comes from the Frenchjean fustian.Fustianis a type of twilled cotton cloth originally from Genoa, Italy. But the plural form of the word was first used in the United States, in 1843. Levi Strauss designed a pair of durable worktrousersfor laborers, compl...
This may account for the familiarity that English speakers have withLatinx, which is less so among Spanish speakers. Even with the Spanish pronunciation ofXas “equis,”Latinxcan be cumbersome to pronounce as well as apply to adjective-to-noun agreement in Spanish. In a Spanish-speaking context,...