Danglish
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See also: danglish
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Danglish
- An informal variety of language that mixes elements of Danish and English languages.
- 2012, Karin Arvidsson, Does the Nordic Region Speak with a Forked Tongue?[1], page 98:
- We have our languages, our identity and our culture, and we prefer to muddle through by speaking some sort of “Swenglish”, “Danglish” or even “Finnlandic” with each other during the breaks and at dinner.
- (often derogatory) English writing or speech strongly influenced by Danish.
- 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp, “Rethinking /dev and devices in the UNIX kernel”, in Proceedings of BSDCon[2]:
- Many thanks to the people who took time to help me stamp out “Danglish” through their reviews and comments: Chris Demetriou, Paul Richards, Brian Somers, Nik Clayton, and Hanne Munkholm. Any remaining insults to proper use of english language are my own fault.
- (often derogatory) Danish speech featuring many English loanwords or nonce borrowings.
- 2018 April 22, May-Lin Demetriou, “Do Danish people who speak English think in Danglish?”, in Quora[3]:
- I generally try not to speak Danglish (except with my husband, then everything goes. We even throw in a bit of German). Still, it does happen occasionally, if I can’t remember a word, if the person I’m speaking to understands the other language and there’s better word for something, such as “procrastination” in English or “overskudsmenneske” in Danish.
Translations[edit]
mixture of Danish and English
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Etymology 2[edit]
Compare Daglish, from Dalgleish, from Scottish Gaelic dail (“field”) + glas (“green”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Proper noun[edit]
Danglish
- A surname.
- 1858 December, W.A. Alcott, “Manufacture of bread”, in The New England Farmer, page 574:
- For we learn from the Illustrated Inventor, that Dr. Danglish, of Great Malvern, in England, has patented an improvement on the preparation of dough