Spanglish
pronunciation
How to pronounce Spanglish in British English:
UK ['spæŋɡlɪʃ]
How to pronounce Spanglish in American English:
US ['spæŋɡlɪʃ]
Word Origin
- Spanglish (n.)
- "Spanish deformed by English words and idioms," by 1967, probably a nativization of Spanish Espanglish (1954); ultimately from Spanish (n.) + English.
Example
- 1. But I want to see spanglish .
- 2. The man 's spanish is quite impressive but when the club 's press officer was struggling to understand him on the phone , casey inexplicably switched to spanglish .
- 3. Ms. vega made her breakthrough in the 2001 film ' sex and lucia ' and gained fame in the u. s.with the 2004 romantic comedy ' spanglish , ' in which she starred alongside adam sandler .
- 4. Users of facebook already socialise in a number of different " englishes " including indian english , or hinglish , spanglish ( spanish english ) and konglish ( korean english ) .