Anglish
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Angle + -ish; coined by British author Paul Jennings in 1966 as a jocular name in the British magazine Punch.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
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Anglish
- A register or form of English that gives preference to words of native Germanic origin over words of foreign (especially those of Latin, French, or Greek) origin.
- In Anglish, you might call a dictionary a ‘wordbook’.
- 2017 March 25, Lili Bidwell, “Anglish: A Brexiteer’s lingua franca?”, in The Cambridge Student[1], archived from the original on 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.
Synonyms
[edit]- Eldsay English
Adjective
[edit]Anglish (comparative more Anglish, superlative most Anglish)
- Of, in, or pertaining to this form of English.
Further reading
[edit]linguistic purism in English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia