Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- I. Theory -- 1. Getting to grips with false loans and pseudo-Anglicisms -- 2. Allogenisms: The major category of "true" false loans -- II. Germanic Languages -- 3. Danish pseudo-Anglicisms: A corpus-based analysis -- 4. Pseudo-Anglicisms in the language of the contemporary German press -- 5. Pseudo-borrowings as cases of pragmatic borrowing: Focus on Anglicisms in Norwegian -- III. Romance Languages -- 6. False Anglicization in the Romance languages: A contrastive analysis of French, Spanish and Italian -- 7. False Anglicisms in French: A measure of their acceptability for English speakers -- 8. The rise of the English -ing form in Modern Spanish: A source of pseudo-Anglicisms -- 9. The influence of English and French on the Italian language of fashion: Focus on false Anglicisms and false Gallicisms -- IV. English -- 10. Drawing a distinction between false Gallicisms and adapted French borrowings in English -- Appendix -- 11. False borrowings and false Anglicisms: Issues in terminology -- Subject index -- Language index -- Author index.