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pseudoanglicism

pseudoanglicism is the alternative form of pseudo-anglicism.

Meaning of pseudo-anglicism

Noun

pseudo-anglicism (plural pseudo-anglicisms)

  1. A word in a language other than English that has an English appearance but does not exist in English itself.
    • But does it matter if these so-called English words don’t exist in English at all? Baer doesn’t believe so. “I don’t think most people actually realise which are pseudo-anglicisms and which are real anglicisms,” he says.2016 October 13, Matthew Anderson, “The foreign words that seem like English – but aren’t”, in BBC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020

Forms of pseudoanglicism

pluralpseudoanglicisms

Questions about pseudoanglicism

What is pseudoanglicism the alternative form of?
Pseudoanglicism is the alternative form of pseudo-anglicism.

Words near pseudoanglicism in the dictionary

  1. pseudoangiosarcoma
  2. pseudoangiosarcomas
  3. pseudoangiosarcomatous
  4. pseudoangle
  5. pseudoangles
  6. pseudoanglicism
  7. pseudoangular
  8. pseudoannual
  9. pseudoannuals
  10. pseudoanodontia
  11. pseudoanonymization

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