Early anglicism in the 19th Peru century

Abstract

The article focuses on the early Anglicisms imposed on many Hispanic dialects due to the great
power of the British Commercial Imperialism all through the 19th century, which are completely
adapted to the Spanish phonetics and morphology, and thus transcribed with the Spanish spelling.
These are words that do not seem to be Anglicisms since they have been completely assimilated,
such as “chompa” (from “jumper”), “saco” and “chaqueta” (from “jacket”), “lonche” (from
“lunch”), “faite” (from “fighter”), “queque” (from “cake”) and “gasfitero” (from “gasfiter”). The
case of “lonche” is particularly mentioned regarding its lexicographical use. In addition, the article
points out the existence of some phraseology taken from English, and also of some Peruvian
expressions used in the English language spoken in the south west of the United States.