https://belletra.com/editor-at-large/expat-vocab-hour-anglophone-and-anglophile/ English Translation from German, Spanish, and Catalan; English Editing and Writing Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:24:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://belletra.com/editor-at-large/expat-vocab-hour-anglophone-and-anglophile/#comment-57 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:24:24 +0000 http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/expat-vocab-hour-anglophone-and-anglophile/#comment-57 WHAT??? You’ve never seen a single episode of Fawlty Towers? WHAT???
Who raised you?

]]> https://belletra.com/editor-at-large/expat-vocab-hour-anglophone-and-anglophile/#comment-53 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:30:23 +0000 http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/expat-vocab-hour-anglophone-and-anglophile/#comment-53 It’s a pretty broad term: it can also refer to a crazy britpop fan, a serial Englishman-dater, a pub food enthusiast (although that’s a stretch on many counts), etc. Admittedly I may have been stretching it in my own case; I’ve never seen a single episode of Fawlty Towers, although I am a raging Doctor Who fan, if that counts.

]]> https://belletra.com/editor-at-large/expat-vocab-hour-anglophone-and-anglophile/#comment-50 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:04:51 +0000 http://belletra.com/editor-at-large/expat-vocab-hour-anglophone-and-anglophile/#comment-50 Doesn’t “Anglophile” refer more usually to someone who imagines all things [culturally] English to be the bestest evar? The type is lampooned in Fawlty Towers, inter alia.

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