MLE

MLE

1. (linguistics) Initialism of Multicultural London English.

   Coordinate terms: EE, SSBE

   • ante 2009: Ignacio Ramos, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, and José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández [eds.], New Trends in English Teacher Education, page 209 (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; →ISBN

     In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons^[sic] it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.

2. (sports) Initialism of Major League Eating.

MLE (countable and uncountable, plural MLEs)

1. (planetology, areology) Initialism of multi-layer ejecta.
2. (statistics) Initialism of maximum likelihood estimation.

• -mel-, EML, Elm, L.E.M., LEM, Lem, Mel, elm, mel