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Anglosphere
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English
Etymology
From en Anglo sphere. en Q312853 in his book The Diamond Age, published in 1995.
Pronunciation
en /ˈæŋ.ɡlə(ʊ)ˌsfɪə/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Anglosphere.wav Southern England
en /ˈæŋ.ɡləˌsfɪɹ/ /-ɡloʊ-/ GA
Proper noun
the Anglosphere
en Q541576 The totality of Anglophone countries, the geographical or cultural realm of native English-speakers.
en anglosphere
en Francosphere Francophonie
373 The tiny old houses and flats of this once impoverished quarter had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere, poor in equity but rich in expectations, who had come to the great city to incubate their careers.
en 2012 Anna Wierzbicka The history of English seen as the history of ideas The Oxford Handbook of the History of English 439 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v92EdN2fLWkC&dq=Anglosphere&pg=PA439#v=onepage These norms have survived, at least as residues, in the traditions of public speaking and “good writing” in many European languages in modern times. But not in the Anglosphere.
Derived terms
en Anglospherian
en Anglospheric
en Anglospherism
Translations
Anglophone realm
Catalan: ca anglofonia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 英語圈 Yīngyǔquān
Czech: cs anglosaské země
Danish: da anglosfæren
Finnish: fi anglosfääri
French: fr anglophonie, fr anglosphère f
German: de Anglosphäre f
Greek: el αγγλόσφαιρα
Japanese: ja 英語圏 えいごけん, Eigoken
Korean: ko ^영어권(英語圈), ko 영미권(英美圈)
Portuguese: pt anglosfera f
Romanian: ro anglosferă f, ro lume anglofonă f
Russian: ru англосфе́ра f, ru англоязы́чные стра́ны f p
Spanish: es angloesfera f, es anglosfera f
Swedish: sv den engelsktalande världen, sv Anglosfären c
Turkish: tr İngilizce konuşan insanlar topluluğu
References
Anagrams
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