Musing over English competency across the Causeway.
THE suffix -ese is a formative of nouns and adjectives denoting: (1) locality, nationality and language (e.g. Japanese, Portuguese, Sudanese), and (2) literary style, etc. (Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1989).
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