Definitions
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- noun A word or other feature originating in the
English language that has been borrowed by another language. - noun A
Briticism . - noun A cultural aspect typical of the
English people.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well before the Vienna Convention, some Europeans used or at least recognized the anglicism stop.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Well before the Vienna Convention, some Europeans used or at least recognized the anglicism stop.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In the Spanish of Panama, the anglicism watchman has become guachiman.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In the Spanish of Panama, the anglicism watchman has become guachiman.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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My wife - a linguist says that with an English audience in mind you should use the anglicism, I agree.
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An omniscient narrator could without problem use the anglicism or the Phillipine expression, depending on where they are from.
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Est-ce que je suis une party girl? seems like a wildly unnecessary anglicism.
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Barack is as much an Arabic name I suspect the -ck ending is an anglicism, it means Blessings as Hussein, but obviously they don't know that...
The World According to John McCain Anne Johnson 2008
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I just meant that Body Bag is a well known false anglicism.
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I said to M. le comte, who, you know, shows tendencies toward anglicism -- astonishing the influence of women -- I said: 'But, my dear M. le comte, why change?
In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd
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