What's the difference between anglicism and englishism?

Anglicism


Definition:

  • (n.) An English idiom; a phrase or form language peculiar to the English.
  • (n.) The quality of being English; an English characteristic, custom, or method.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Angela Merkel comforts sobbing refugee but says Germany can't help everyone Read more Merkel was captured on camera stroking the girl’s shoulder, creating what Germans commonly refer to as a “shitstorm” (a word they use to mean vociferous outrage expressed on the internet and which was voted Germany’s anglicism of the year in 2011.)
  • (2) Anglicisms have also sprouted in French bureaucratic texts, including le briefing , le benchmarking, le sixpack [rules on financial stability] and most obviously le Brexit , recently confirmed as a masculine word in French and German.
  • (3) "The French were the first, as they were worried about Anglicisms and the disappearance of the great French language.
  • (4) "We are sick of these Americanisms and Anglicisms," said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the party's leader, when proposing the law last year.
  • (5) A study on 30 patients high-lighted the need to anglicize the terminology and spelling.

Englishism


Definition:

  • (n.) A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English.
  • (n.) A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
  • (2) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
  • (3) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
  • (4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (5) Three short reviews by Freud (1904c, 1904d, 1905f) are presented in English translation.
  • (6) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (7) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (8) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (9) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (10) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
  • (11) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
  • (12) To our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported in the English literature.
  • (13) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (14) An ultrasonic system for measuring psychomotor behaviour is described, and then applied to compare the extent to which English and French students gesticulate.
  • (15) This paper reviews the epidemiologic studies of petroleum workers published in the English language, focusing on research pertaining to the petroleum industry, rather than the broader petrochemical industry.
  • (16) In the UK the twin threat of Ukip and the BNP tap into similar veins of discontent as their counterparts across the English channel.
  • (17) Now, a small Scottish charity, Edinburgh Direct Aid – moved by their plight and aware that the language of Lebanese education is French and English and that Syria is Arabic – is delivering textbooks in Arabic to the school and have offered to fund timeshare projects across the country.
  • (18) This is the second report in the English literature on the familial occurrence of chronic active hepatitis type B.
  • (19) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
  • (20) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.

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