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What is an anglicism?

What is an anglicism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A word or other feature originating in the English language that has been borrowed by another language.
  2. A Briticism.
  3. A cultural aspect typical of the English people.
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The VP academic title will be changed to VP University Affairs because in French, Viceprésident aux affaires académiques is an anglicism and there was a consensus at the Academic Round Table to change the title.
It includes an article that states that the term 'globalisation' is an Anglicism used to evoke the phenomenon known as 'mondialisation' in French.
I will take this opportunity to insist, for the record, that, in Castilian, hooligans' is an anglicism for a type of specialised, usually British, troublemaker.
Americans may sometimes find the prose a bit daunting, the occasional Anglicism, misplaced modifier, and passive voice requiring a thorough rereading.
On the strength of a wide range of arguments, the author concludes that the expression être à 'emploi de, a barbarism, solecism and anglicism, is at best a regionalism of doubtful quality.
Anglicism, Germanism, Hispanism... All languages have their idioms, those turns of phrase specific to a language.

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