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Anglicization

NOUN
  1. the act of anglicizing; making English in appearance

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  • It occurred to me that it might be an odd anglicization of some Japanese word based on hito 'person' which can become -bito in compounds, but I haven't found such a word in my Japanese dictionaries. Languagehat.com: CORBITO.
  • Nothing to do with Jerusalem, the name is a anglicization of “girasole” — turning to the sun in Italian — which reflects its sunflower “roots.” What I Ate Last Night Department - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Such aspirations were based upon the pursuit of a vigorous program of de-anglicization and required a vibrant reappraisal of what had been lost to the boom of the colonial ‘cultural bomb.’
  • For Davies the English common law, the customary, collective reason of the English people, was the agent of both Anglicization and civilization.
  • "Overt" is often pronounced with the accent on the second syllable; this is a re-Frenchified pronunciation, or what I would call a de-anglicization.
  • And now Bangalore, my home for most of this year and for the next six months, is jumping on India's de-anglicization band-wagon and changing its name to Bengaluru.
  • The word "Mayday" -- used by pilots and sailors in trouble -- is an Anglicization of the phrase m'aidez, or help me. ASK TIP SHEET
  • The most common term, however, is "margrave", which is an anglicization of the German word markgraf. Salem-News.com
  • Juggernaut" is an Anglicization of Jagannatha, and the word has since come to mean "a massive, inexorable force that crushes everything in its path. 10 Gorgeous Pilgrimage Sites You Need to See
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