Immigrenglish

What is Immigrenglish?

1.

A portmanteau of the words "immigrant" and "english" usually used when referring to the comical attempts made by non-native english speakers trying to pronounce certain words phonetically.

"Are they burning effigies?" (Effigies being pronounced, "eff-EEE-geez")

"What are integers again?" (Integer being pronounced, "int-TEG-urs" as in "good" rather than the proper "gel")

Response: "There's some more of your immigrenglish."

See chinglish, spanglish, immigrant, portmanteau
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