Anglicism
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- noun
- /ˈæŋɡlɪˌsɪzəm/
- UK
- Borrowing from English, the Spanish word "ticket" is an example of an Anglicism that is widely accepted.
Examples
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The term "smartphone" is considered an Anglicism in many non-English speaking countries.
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In Germany, the anglicism "shitstorm" (sic) has recently seen regular use on established news outlets like spiegel.de.
Blog text (12) -
Gerard Noiriel told me when his book was published that he had chosen the title "creuset" as an obvious reference to the American notion of melting pot (but avoiding the Anglicism).
Academic text (1994) -
In French, the word "weekend" is an Anglicism that many people use in everyday conversation.
Synonyms
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A word or phrase used mainly in British English, not American English
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A word or phrase people use mainly in British English instead of American English
How English
Surface Forms
Morphology
Anglicism = English (semi-transparent) = anglic + ism
The '-ism' nominalizes a root indicating 'Englishness', but the root is a Latinized combining form 'anglic-' rather than the everyday lexical form, so the form-meaning mapping is somewhat indirect.
Etymology
The word Anglicism comes from the root Anglic- meaning 'English' and the ending -ism meaning 'a thing or practice'. A helpful way to remember the second meaning is to think of an Anglicism as an English word or phrase that has been 'taken into' another language, which is why we call borrowed English words 'Anglicisms'.