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- See anglicise, anglicize. (Wiktionary)
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“In the Spanish of Panama, the anglicism watchman has become guachiman.”
“Well before the Vienna Convention, some Europeans used or at least recognized the anglicism stop.”
“My wife - a linguist says that with an English audience in mind you should use the anglicism, I agree.”
“An omniscient narrator could without problem use the anglicism or the Phillipine expression, depending on where they are from.”
“Est-ce que je suis une party girl? seems like a wildly unnecessary anglicism.”
“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...”
“I just meant that Body Bag is a well known false anglicism.”
“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?”
“This expression is no longer used in French, but the English gallicism to flirt has made its way and has now become an anglicism.”
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