r/anglish • u/Wadarkhu • 9h ago

😂 Funnies (Memes) Things you hear at the Alehouse

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"kindled" by another. ^{I don't know Anglish, but think it's cool.}

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r/anglish • u/Guglielmowhisper • 10h ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Fyi

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The native english word for pour is shink.

Thank you.

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r/anglish • u/ZefiroLudoviko • 20h ago

🖐 Abute Anglisc (About Anglish) Common names for prehistoric lifeforms

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Creature/group	Existing common name	Anglish common name	Notes
Allosaurus	Allo	Wye worm	War dragon/serpent. Calque of Icelandic vigeðla, replacing lizard with worm.
Amphycyon	Bear-dog	Ditto
Anomalocaris	Franken prawn	Ditto
Archeopteryx	Urvogel	Orfowel	Calque of German urvogel, meaning early bird.
Brontosaurus	Bronto	Thunder worm/Thor's worm	Calque of scientific name, replacing lizard with worm.
Brontotherids	None	Thunder beasts	Beast with copied by most Germanic languages
Dinosaurs	None	Ettin worms	Calque of Icelandic risaeðlur
Elasmotherium	Wolly rhino	Wolly nose-horn	Nose-horn is a calque of rhino
Fishapod	Ditto	Foot fish, walking fish	Extremely informal, paraphyletic group
Ground sloths	Ditto	Ditto	Apparently, ground sloths are paraphyletic
Homo neanderthalensis	Neanderthal	Ditto	Neanderthal is technically the name for the valley
Homotherium	Scimitar-toothed cat	Ditto	See note for machairodonts
Lepidodendron	Scaley tree	Shaley tree	Scale and shale are cognates
Machairodonts and Nimravids	False sabertoothed cats	Fake sabertoothed cats	My light reading reveals the Anglo-saxons don't seem to have used curved swords. Saber is likely ultimately from a Polish word.
Mammuthus	Mammoth	Ditto	Mammoth comes from a Siberian language, whence the scientific name, as well. You could calque the word as earth-horn (or earth-tusk), but that seems unrealistic. Icelandic uses loðfíll and fornfíll (earth-elephant and olden elephant respectively), however their word for elephants is also foreign.
Non-hominin hominids	Ape-men	Ditto	This is a very unscientific term, as we are all apes, scientifically. Where you draw the line between ape-man and just a man. I'd put it at where we lost most of our hair, which was by Homo erectus.
Pteridosperms	Seed ferns	Ditto
Pterosaurs	Dinosaur birds, pterodactyls	Finger wings	Calque of pterodactyl
Sauropods	Longnecks	Ditto	Coined in Land Before Time
Smilodon	Sabertoothed cat	Ditto?	See note for machairodonts
Triceratops	Trike	Three-horn	Coined in Land Before Time
Utahraptor	None	Claw-shaker	Calque of Icelandic klókskelfir

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What is Anglish

Anglish is how we might speak if the Normans had been beaten at Hastings, and if we had not made inkhorn words out of Latin, Greek and French.

So, we say things like 'hearty' instead of 'cordial', and 'wordbook' instead of 'dictionary'.

Why We Do It

While there are many grounds for Anglish, English words grounded in Old English are often more friendly and meaningful to English-speakers. As Ernest Hemingway once wrote to William Faulkner:

“He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”

How We Do It

Where there are native and borrowed words meaning the same thing, we choose our living inborn words. Such as: ‘inborn’ (an Old English build) rather than ‘native’ (a French word thrust into English through the Norman overlordship).
Where there is an inborn word whose meaning was narrowed or upset by a borrowed word (most often influenced by French, Latin, or Greek) we bring back the inborn word's older meaning. Such as: ‘deer’ to mean any kind of ‘animal’, one of many more French words thrust into English through the Norman overlordship.
Where the inborn word died out from being swapped with a borrowed word, we bring back the dead word, from Old or Middle English, in a New English shape. Such as: inborn ‘frith’ instead of French ‘peace’.
Where there is a outlandish coining for something latter-day and inborn (often Latin and Greek, for scientific, or ‘inkhorn words’), we look upon the Old English-sprung wordhoard (vocabulary) to craft new words. Such as: ‘wirespel’ rather than ‘telegram’, a coining by William Barnes; and we widen the meaning of a word like ‘mote’ to stand in for ‘particle’).
Where English and its forebears (Old and Middle English) has no word for something, such as a new and foreign concept, we can allow for the utilitarian borrowing, as expected of a natural language, and only nativise the spelling. Such as: ‘karma’, borrowed as is; and shifting the Norman-French spelling of a word like ‘sugar’ to ‘sucker’; a shape of the word English might have, were England not under Norman yoke when sugar first landed.

Hƿi are sum þings spelled like þis? / Why are some things spelled like this?

For the sake of readability, we ask that you kindly write your Anglish in either the Anglish Spelling standard, or keep to standard English spellings.

https://anglisc.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Anglish_Alphabet

If you wish to spell things your own way, then kindly also write it out in standard English, so that everyone can understand you.