Anglosphere
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Etymology[edit]
Anglo- + -sphere. Coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his book The Diamond Age, published in 1995.[1]
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Proper noun[edit]
the Anglosphere
- The totality of Anglophone countries, the geographical or cultural realm of native English-speakers.
- 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 373:
- The tiny old houses and flats of this once impoverished quarter had mostly been refurbished into toeholds for young Atlantans from all around the Anglosphere, poor in equity but rich in expectations, who had come to the great city to incubate their careers.
- 2012, Anna Wierzbicka, “The history of English seen as the history of ideas”, in The Oxford Handbook of the History of English[1], page 439:
- These norms have survived, at least as residues, in the traditions of public speaking and “good writing” in many European languages in modern times. But not in the Anglosphere.
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Translations[edit]
Anglophone realm
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References[edit]
- ^ Paul McFedries (1996–2024) “Anglosphere”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited.
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