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ENGLISH IN BRAZIL: ENGLISH WORDS TRASMITTED TO BRAZILIAN CULTURE
INTRODUCTION
English arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England what is now south-east Scotland, but was then under the control of the kingdom of Northumbria . Historically, English originated from the fusion of closely related dialects.
The Industrial Revolution, the British economic predominance in the 19th century paved the way for a colonialism of large geographical reach that spread the English language in the world. the strong political and military predominance of the U.S. after World War II paved the way for a substantial economic and cultural influence that displaced French from the sphere of diplomacy and fixed English as the standard for international communication.
Nowadays, In the world there are 950 million speakers of the English language, of course English is the most influenced economic power, social, and international language. The English was entered in Brazil through British priests who taught the English language to Brazilian population. Today in Brazil only 24% of the population speaks English fluently. (Folha de São Paulo, 2005), but we can said that 90% of the population adhere some English words in their vocabulary, but many of these people have no knowledge or any contact with English language, but these words are yet in their daily and vocabulary.
English words in Brazil can be found literally in every nook and cranny: advertisements, billboards, brands and labels, shop names, restaurant menus, foreign and national songs, packages, movies, soap-operas, bumper stickers, cartoons, comic books, graffiti, TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, and also in our oral and written interaction. In this bilingual environment, knowledge of Portuguese, the official language in Brazil, is no longer enough to understand our everyday context.
According to ( SERRARA, 2003)The most famous Brazilian dictionary of Portuguese, popularly known as Aurélio, only registers 373 words