Anglophilia
Americannoun
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I’ve spent the last four decades trying to understand my Anglophilia.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2022
“What should have been an easy cash-in — cute pups with a splash of Anglophilia thrown in — has somehow morphed into something deeply unpleasant, and in no way suitable for children,” the Independent wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2021
That should have been a clue to the extent of her Anglophilia, I now realize, along with her emphatic insistence that her children "speak the Queen's English" whenever we'd lapse into slang.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020
Anglophilia constitutes a major subset of escapist entertainment, and one to which, I confess, I am particularly susceptible.
From Slate ● May 22, 2020
Chacko said that going to see The Sound of Music was an extended exercise in Anglophilia.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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