Talking about Food

Naming food in a nativised variety of English in adensely multilingual context like Cameroon is a complex phenomenon.This is because certain foods or dishes carry socioculturalsignifications that may be lost or altered if their original namesare translated or abandoned for others. Using data from the foodblog <www.preciouscore.com>, this paper explains the wordformation processes used and the social meanings embedded in foodnames in Cameroon English (CamE). Borrowing and compounding emerge