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English
Linguistic purism in English
Etymology
en Q7151576 1966 1 from en Angle -ish Angl(e), from en ang Engle Engl(e) + ang -isċ, as a jocular name in the British magazine Punch (magazine) Punch.1066 and All Saxon 2023 https://anglish.org/wiki/1066_and_All_Saxon Anglish https://web.archive.org/web/20241208110033/https://anglish.org/wiki/1066_and_All_Saxon. en English.
Pronunciation
en /ˈæŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/ RP /ˈæŋ.ɡə.lɪʃ/ non-standard
en /ˈæŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/ GA
en /ˈeɪŋ.(ɡ)lɪʃ/ Upper Midwestern US,Western US,CA,æ-raising
en /ˈæŋ.ɡləʃ/ AU
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Anglish.wav Southern England
en An glish
Proper noun
en birdlore for en ornithology
en goldhoard for en treasure
en other for en different
en quicksilver for en mercury
en waterstuff for en hydrogen
en wordbook for en dictionary
en wordhoard for en vocabulary
A linguistic purism puristic style of English that exclusively uses words of native (Germanic) origin, proscribing words of foreign (especially Latin, French, and Greek) origin.
en en Anglo-Saxon English Anglo-Saxon English en Eldsay English Eldsay English en Saxon English Saxon English
en Anglese<qq:English altered to resemble a Romance language>
en In Anglish, you would call a dictionary a wordbook.
en Lili Bidwell Anglish: A Brexiteer’s lingua franca? w:The Cambridge Student https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/anglish-a-brexiteer-s-lingua-franca/ 2017-03-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20210131123210/https://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/anglish-a-brexiteer-s-lingua-franca/ 2021-01-31 Whilst you would be forgiven for thinking this statement comes straight from the latest UKIP manifesto, it is in fact a quotation from The Anglish Moot, a fan-page promoting the use of the 'Anglish language — that is, English with all foreign borrowings stripped away.
Related terms
en Anglian Anglo-English<gloss:British English>
Translations
puristic style of English
German: de Anglisch
Hindi: hi एंग्लिश f
Adjective
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Of, in, or pertaining to this form of English.
References
Anagrams
en aghilns shaling ashling haglins Singhal halsing lashing Shangli Ashling
en English
en autological terms