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单词 anglais
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Anglaisn.

Brit. /ˈɑːŋɡleɪ/, /ˈɒŋɡleɪ/, U.S. /ɔŋˈɡleɪ/, Canadian English /ɒŋˈɡlei/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Forms: 1800s Anglois, 1800s– Anglais. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French anglais, anglois.
Etymology: < Canadian French anglais, †anglois a Canadian of British descent (early 19th cent. or earlier), extended use of French anglais , †anglois an Englishman (12th cent. in Old French as anglois ), use as noun of anglais , †anglois (adjective) English (12th cent. in Old French) < post-classical Latin Anglus (plural Angli : see Angle n.3) + French -ais -ese suffix.Specific forms. In plural form Anglais after the French plural form. Also commonly found in representations of the speech of French-speakers in any location, of which the following are early examples:1817 W. Jerdan Six Weeks in Paris I. vii. 155 ‘Eh! that is so like these Anglais,’ said Mademoiselle Sansfond.1828 ‘D. Conway’ Solitary Walks I. viii. 56 ‘Who is he?’ ‘What is he?’ ‘Is he an Anglais?’ ‘Is he a true, genuine, veritable Anglais?’
Canadian.
Chiefly among French Canadians: (originally) a Canadian of British descent; (now chiefly) a Canadian whose first language is English.
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1833 Canad. Courant 2 Jan. 2/5 The British Canadians are..upheld by our ‘Cicero's’ as ‘office seekers’, ‘growlers’, ‘monopolists’, and many other equally applicable epithets are attached to the poor Anglois.
1888 R. Sellar Hist. County Huntingdon xii. 225 It came to be a proverb with them, that an Anglais would get rich on a farm where a French-Canadian would starve.
1938 Winnipeg Free Press 24 June 1/3 My fragmentary French pleased him... An ‘Anglais’ from the outside world who could talk with him—that was an event in his pub.
1953 A. R. M. Lower Unconventional Voy. xviii. 139 The men in the service station were obliging, but how could the anglais talk technical motor terms in French?
2001 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 29 Nov. a19 I was and am, I regret to say, a unilingual Anglais, hardly a prime candidate to be suspected as a member of the Front de liberation du Quebec.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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