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<strong>Welcome to Anglish.org</strong>
<strong>What is Anglish?</strong>


Anglish is English without borrowed words from other tongues.
Anglish is linguistic purism in English. The Anglish movement seeks to remove borrowed words from foreign languages, and instead use native English words.
 
For example:
 
Dictionary > Wordbook
Famous > Nameknown
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, Old English words can be revived and updated to modern spelling to be used for a modern meaning.


== See Also ==
== See Also ==
* [https://old.reddit.com/r/anglish Anglish Subreddit]
* [https://old.reddit.com/r/anglish Anglish Subreddit]
* [https://discord.com/invite/StjsRtP Discord]
* [https://discord.com/invite/StjsRtP Discord]

Revision as of 07:51, 9 January 2022

What is Anglish?

Anglish is linguistic purism in English. The Anglish movement seeks to remove borrowed words from foreign languages, and instead use native English words.

For example:

Dictionary > Wordbook Famous > Nameknown 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, Old English words can be revived and updated to modern spelling to be used for a modern meaning.

See Also