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Franglais includes such classics as hot-dog steamé all dressed , and a rock music review which declared that a group's appeal was to male white trash de vieille souche.
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.
Indeed, Mr. Mason's call to purify English of Germanic influences reminds one of the French hysteria over “Franglais,” or of the more sinister years in this century when a “Telefon” become a “Fernsprecher,” a “Radio” become a “Rundfunk,” and so ordinary a personage as Mama became a Fricka-like “Mutti.”
In this calculatedly selective text I count only a few more Franglais words or morphemes, forty-four, than English morphemes originally, in most cases centuries ago, borrowed from French, forty by my count.
Dictionnaire de Franglais