Pseudo-anglicism

A pseudo-anglicism is a word in another language that is formed from English elements and may appear to be English, but that does not exist as an English word with the same meaning.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

For example, English speakers traveling in France may be struck by the "number of anglicisms—or rather words that look English—which are used in a different sense than they have in English, or which do not exist in English (such as rallye-paper, shake-hand, baby-foot, or baby-parc)".^[6]

This is different from a false friend, which is a word with a cognate that has a different main meaning. Sometimes pseudo-anglicisms become false friends.^[7]

^ Ayres-Bennett 2014, p. 325,335.
^ Ilse Sørensen, English im deutschen Wortschatz, 1997, p. 18, as quoted in Onysko, 2007, p. 53: "words that look English, but which deviate from genuine English words either formally or semantically"
^ Sicherl 1999, p. 14.
^ Duckworth 1977.
^ Onysko 2007, p. 52The term pseudo-anglicism" describes the phenomenon that occurs when the RL^{['receptor language'; p.14]} uses lexical elements of the SL^{['source language'; p.14]} to create a neologism in the RL that is unknown in the SL. For the German language, Duckworth simply defines pseudo anglicisms as German neologisms derived from English language material.
^ Nicol Spence 1976, as quoted in Ayres-Bennett, 2014, p. 335
^ Henrik Gottlieb, "Danish pseudo-Anglicisms: A corpus-based analysis", p. 65 in Furiassi 2015

[FOOTNOTEAyres-Bennett2014325,335-1] Ayres-Bennett 2014, p. 325,335.

[2] Ilse Sørensen, English im deutschen Wortschatz, 1997, p. 18, as quoted in Onysko, 2007, p. 53: "words that look English, but which deviate from genuine English words either formally or semantically"

[FOOTNOTESicherl199914-3] Sicherl 1999, p. 14.

[FOOTNOTEDuckworth1977-4] Duckworth 1977.

[FOOTNOTEOnysko2007p._52-5] Onysko 2007, p. 52The term pseudo-anglicism" describes the phenomenon that occurs when the RL^{['receptor language'; p.14]} uses lexical elements of the SL^{['source language'; p.14]} to create a neologism in the RL that is unknown in the SL. For the German language, Duckworth simply defines pseudo anglicisms as German neologisms derived from English language material.

[6] Nicol Spence 1976, as quoted in Ayres-Bennett, 2014, p. 335

[7] Henrik Gottlieb, "Danish pseudo-Anglicisms: A corpus-based analysis", p. 65 in Furiassi 2015

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