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The Anglish movement prefers to use native English words over words borrowed from foreign languages. This is linguistic purism applied to English.
Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages. This is linguistic purism applied to English.
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Revision as of 12:11, 27 February 2022

What is Anglish?

Anglish is a kind of English which prefers native words over those borrowed from foreign languages. This is linguistic purism applied to English.

For example:

Dictionary > Wordbook
Famous > Nameknown
Native > Inborn
Decide > Choose
Computer > Reckoner

This is achieved by simply choosing to use a native word over a borrowed word, or if there is no modern native word for a given concept, Old English words can be revived and updated to modern spelling to be used for a modern meaning.

History

The term "Anglish" was made up by Paul Jennings in 1966, however the desire to remove foreign influence from the English language is a tradition that goes back all the way to 1066 when the Norman invasion brought in the majority of foreign vocabulary to English.

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