Example sentences for: ecott

How can you use “ecott” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here is a copy of Martyn Ecott's little story, with the Franglais expressions left in italics but with the English morphemes originally borrowed from French underlined in the mainly English text.

  • I was intrigued by William Dougherty's comment [XXI,2] on Martyn Ecott's article The Franglais Blues [XX,3].

  • I was amused and bemused by Martyn Ecott's The Franglais Blues [XX, 3].

  • As Martyn Ecott cleverly demonstrates, francophone purists have reason for alarm; the flow, absolute flood of vocabulary from French into English, once resulting in a kind of hybridization, has lately been somewhat reversed, depositing in the elegant French language such grotesque neologisms as un pin's or hip hop.


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