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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A variant of Finnish language that is spoken by the descendants of Finnish immigrants to North America, the vocabulary of which is heavily influenced by English. It is far from being a uniform language, mainly exists in spoken form, and seems bound to disappear.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated, uncountable
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noun
A way of speaking Finnish using English-language terminology excessively. It is particularly common among those professions which are in close contact with the English-speaking world such as IT-professionals, marketing people and managers of global firms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, uncountable
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noun
English spoken with a heavy Finnish accent and using Finnish linguistic structures, Finnish broken English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, uncountable
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History
Blend of Finnish + English.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
