ANGLO-AMERICAN
ANGLO-AMERICAN.
1. Relating to England or Britain and the US: Anglo-American trade talks.
2. A citizen of the US born in England or of English origin.
3. An American who speaks English: compare ANGLO.
4. A term for the English language proposed by the British zoologist and amateur linguist Lancelot Hogben in The Mother Tongue (1964).
5. American English: ‘Since the Second World War, the Nordic languages have taken over not only direct loans, but also calques and grammatical constructions from Anglo-American’ (Language International 2:2, 1990).
1. Relating to England or Britain and the US: Anglo-American trade talks.
2. A citizen of the US born in England or of English origin.
3. An American who speaks English: compare ANGLO.
4. A term for the English language proposed by the British zoologist and amateur linguist Lancelot Hogben in The Mother Tongue (1964).
5. American English: ‘Since the Second World War, the Nordic languages have taken over not only direct loans, but also calques and grammatical constructions from Anglo-American’ (Language International 2:2, 1990).
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