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Anglify
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English
Etymology
From en Anglus Englishman ify la.
Verb
en transitive To convert to English (language or culture); to anglicise.
en 1751 w:Benjamin Franklin Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. Why should Pennsylvania become a Colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us, instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion?
en 1860 w:Charles Darwin Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology Englishmen speak to their servants in French, and the shops are all French; indeed I should think that Calais or Boulogne was much more Anglified
Related terms
en Anglification
en Englify
References
Anagrams
en afgilny flaying