Sentence:  Then and now Back in 1981 when I wrote the first article on this subject (The Incorporated Linguist 20, 104, 1981), Naples was in the throes of a boom in the use of English (or rather <WSD>pseudo-English</WSD>) in local facias and tradenames. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (linguistics) Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.