Linguistic Purism, And The Call For Anglish, The English Throwback

Are you trying to rid your Anglish Linguistic purism in English that dates back to the millennium? Do you yearn for the language of the past and the old-fashioned speech style? If so, you're among a cohort of Germanic-lusting language purists who love Anglish, the imaginary English that could have been if only there weren't so many bothersome borrowed words.

What is Anglish?
Anglish which is referred to in some circles as Roots English, is a fringe language invention, movement, project and one with an active online community. The Anglish community and its supporters seek to restore the "Mean English” to its original essence. This doesn't necessarily mean only eliminating English of its modern-day glam and all its selfies, wakefulness and vaping. English linguistic purists are looking at a long way back, with forlorn eyes to the past of Anglo-Saxon and Beowulf, before Shakespeare and even the Middle English of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

The idea behind the project is to select the archaic and contemporary Germanic words that will replace borrowed Germanic words, like the German term Germany (from Latin Germania), which, in Anglish, becomes Theechland. This project that claims to be a "means of restoring the Englishness and restoring ownership of English," is a good example of linguistic purism.

Many English-loving people wonder how English would look without Old Norman's Latin-derived English words. This dialect, created in response to the Norman conquers of England during the 11th century evolved into the language for nobles and culture. This was the time when Anglo-Norman Middle English emerged. It was a collection of words that were related to law and government , as in addition to medicine and the church.

In Anglish Paul Jennings to an extensive dictionary or wordbook that lists the Anglish equivalents of hundreds of Mean English words, the Anglish moot online contains translations of famous works like the Gettysburg Speech: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this greatland, a new folkship, and dreamed of freedom" If you like fighting both fictional and factual, you'll find articles written in Anglish about World Wye Two and Star Wyes.

Although the Anglish movement may seem like mockery, it's not the least unjust. The term "Anglish" was invented by comedian Paul Jennings in three articles titled "1066 and All Saxon" in Punch magazine in 1966. He imagined a world where the Norman conquer would not have occurred.

One of the most significant variants of Anglish is "Ander-Saxon," whose development and name are ascribed to the writer of science fiction Poul Anderson. It's the variation of Anglish that is used in science fiction, such as in Uncleftish Beholding, Anderson's 1989 book on the fundamental atomic theory written in Anglish. In Ander-Saxon chemical elements, they are called firststuffs as well as molecules bulkbits. The text has attracted a lot of attention because of how strange it sounds. YouTubers have even taken it upon themselves to record readings of it.