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- Englishism : Englishism (noun): A distortion of an Indian name, by Britishers or by English media in India. A distorted pronounciation lead to a different spelling: 'Pune' was distorted to 'Poona', 'Vandre' to 'Bandra', 'BhaykhaLaa' to 'Byculla', 'Kulaba' to 'Colaba', 'ParaL' to 'Parel'. 'Sheev' in Marathi was distorted to 'Sion' (spelling borrowed from Farsi)....
- 'Poona' is an englishism of 'Pune'.- Usage found in newspapers and magazines. Right now, I do not have the exact source.
- Submitted by: Anonymous on Dec. 04, 2005 09:13
- englishize (verb) : To make English; to make a word sound English
- He didn't know how to say an ordinal number "nine" in Spanish, so he englishized it and said "nueveth."
- Submitted by: Anonymous on Oct. 24, 2007 21:06
- Englishly correctual (adjective) : a term used sarcastically to describe someone who uses poor English grammar
- When Milton said he "had did goodly" on his math test, I told him he was very Englishly correctual.
- Submitted by: Wilson and Sparkle from North Dakota on May. 01, 2007 10:20
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