Danglish

danglish English Etymology 1 en Danish English. Proper noun en proper noun An informal variety of language that mixes elements of Danish and English languages. en 2012 Karin Arvidsson Does the Nordic Region Speak with a Forked Tongue? 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=ap5VzpwmYBUC&pg=PA31 en often derogatory English writing or speech strongly influenced by Danish. en 2002 Poul-Henning Kamp Rethinking /dev and devices in the UNIX kernel Proceedings of BSDCon https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/full_papers/kamp/kamp_html/index.html 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251215013346/https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon02/full_papers/kamp/kamp_html/index.html 15 December 2025 en often derogatory Danish speech featuring many English loanwords or nonce borrowings. en April 22, 2018 May-Lin Demetriou Do Danish people who speak English think in Danglish? Quora https://www.quora.com/Do-Danish-people-who-speak-English-think-in-Danglish/answer/May-Lin-Demetriou 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 mixture of Danish and English Danish: da danglish n Etymology 2 Compare en Daglish, from en Dalgleish, from gd dail field + gd glas green. en Proper noun en. en 1858 W.A. Alcott Manufacture of bread The New England Farmer 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 December Anagrams en adghilns dahlings