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anglicism
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
any feature of pronunciation, morphology, syntax, vocabulary, or spelling borrowed from English by the Canadian French.
Quotations
1919
. . . a study of the speech of Quebec has shown that nine-tenths of the faulty expressions used in that province are "anglicisms" incorporated in the language because of the close contact of the two peoples.