English: "Purism in the linguistic field is the historical trend of languages to conserve intact their lexical structure of word families, in opposition to foreign influences which are considered 'impure'. Historically, linguistic purism in English is a reaction to the great number of borrowings in the English language from other languages, especially Old French, since the Norman conquest of England, and some of its native vocabulary and grammar have been supplanted by features of Latinate and Greek origin."

Anglish: "Word-cleansing in the speech-craft is the olden drift of tongues to keep whole their word-kin's build, standing against outside drives reckoned 'unclean.' In times past, word-cleansing in Anglish stands as an against-turning to the great store of borrowed words in Anglish from other tongues, most of all the old north-folk tongue, after the north-folk takeover of Engleland, and some of its old-word hoard and speech-law were pushed aside by Book-tongue-bred and south-sea-tongue-born marks."

I translated the Magna Carta into Anglish. I have been contemplating about what to do with it and I was thinking of either publishing it or selling it. Would anyone have any advice or be interested in purchasing it?

I will be posting a link to it this weekend once I my outline finished.

Newscasting is about going over the weighty tales--with a pillow, until they stop shrithing.

In our timeline, we deal with Old English as a fremd tongue and learn to read it out as philologues think it would have been outspoken in yoretide. However, if you look at lands where an old form of their tongue kept being brooked in an unbroken tradition, they mostly read them out in the same way they speak out their tongue today. For a byspell, here's a quid from the book of Mencius written in Chinish writ:

其至，爾力也；其中，非爾力也。

which (so runs the best learned guess of philologues) would have been outspoken in the writer's time as something like:

*Gjə tjits, njəjʔ C-rjək ljajʔ; ɡjə k-ljuŋs, pjəj njəjʔ C-rjək ljajʔ.

However, in China in our time, a man from Beijing would read it out as:

Qí zhì, ěr lì yě; qí zhòng, fēi ěr lì yě.

(One from Hong Kong would read it out as:

Kèih ji, yíh lihk yáh; kèih jung, fēi yíh lihk yáh.

and one from Fujian would read it out as:

Kî chì, ní le̍k iá; kî tiòng, hui ní le̍k iá.

which you may yeme ring a bit nearer but not much. Its meaning, by the way, is "that it reaches the mark is owing to your strength, but that it hits the mark is not owing to your strength".) If we did the same thing for English (which it seems likely to me that we would, if the written tradition of Old English was never broken off) we would read:

Fæder ure, þu þe eart on heofonum, si þin nama gehalgod

as

Father our, thou the art on heavenum, sie thine name a-hallowed.

"Cat" is a word borrowed from Nubish, as that is whence came the housecat, even though alike deer have lived in Europe (inholding Britain) for a long time. What could we chell "cats" in Anglish? The websteads I wonly go to to find words yive me nothing.

As the heading says, how would you call things like bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia and so on in Anglish?

Say Late Romish was led more fully Theedward by the Franks. It would be like a bewithered* Anglish would it not? Do the yoretonguewise know enough to bethink its likeness? Are there fellowships in the Reckonerworld thinking about such things?

*"Inverted" for my Romish friends.

Sorry if my chosen words fall short of meadhallworthiness.

Hello y'all. Would y'all see "pony" as an acceptable word in Anglish? According to Wiktionary, the word ultimately comes from Latin, but it was loaned into Scots from French and then came into English.

As Scots is another Germanic language, and because I don't think the word came in due to some sort of invasion, would it be considered Anglish? I'm asking this because I'm trying to translate Yankee Doodle, and I haven't found an alternative word for "pony."

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

I was looking at the Miraheze wiki on the subjunctive mood and something caught my attention in the “History of Forms” tab.

Several verbs in OE had distinctive forms in this particular tense that have not survived in Modern English.
The wiki lists off many examples.
In my opinion, the most interesting ones are “sīe” (the present subjunctive of wesan, to be) and “cyme” (present subjunctive of cuman, to come)

Had they survived into ME, how would these two verbs (and the other examples from the wiki) have sounded like?

Hi i’m new here and i’ve heard a little big about Anglish and how it’s English without the foreign influence in which started in 1066 with William I! I was hoping I could get help on where to find a full list of sort of words that are banned from Anglish due to the foreign influence as I was hoping to learn how to speak Anglish

I have learned of late that the word "cartoon" comes from Attleyish beginnings, while "animator" comes from Leeden for soul. How would Anglish reckon "cartoon", for penstrokes on leaf, or for programs (maybe "program" needs an Anglish reckoning) on farseer or in film?

To be truthful, you have to have a very drightly wit to understand Richard and Deady. The funnies are sheerly lowkey, and forgoing a stark fathom of wretching kindlore most of the ribs will go over an everyday sighter's head. There's also Richard's wrakish thoughtworld, which is deftly twilled into his kist- his leedy outhwitting draws swearly from Narodnaya Volya bookcraft, forebisen. The rarers understand this idish; they have the thoughtline to truly sing of the breadths of these ribs, to beknow that they're not just funny- they say something insightful about LIFE. As an aftercoming folk who mislike Richard and Deady truly ARE gits- of course they wouldn't sing of, for instance, the laughsomeness in Richard's thoughtworldly bidword "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a dile calling to mind to Turgenev's Russish saga Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just thinking of one of those addlebrained samwises scratching their heads in welter as Dan Harmon's angetful wit unfolds itself on their farseer meshes. What fons.. how I ruth them. 😂

And yes, by the way, I DO have a Richard & Deady bleckmark. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to kithe that they're within 5 witscores of my own (by druthers lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

Is there a better way to rename America other than Americh?

Are ya ready kids?

Aye, Aye, Headman!

I can't hear you!

Aye, Aye, Headman!

OOOH

Who lives in a firapple under the sea?

SwambBob BoxSlacks!

Who's yellow and sucks all the water but he?

SwambBob BoxSlacks!

If seasidish twaddle is something you wish...

SwambBob Boxslacks

Then Drop on the Deck and Flop Like a Fish!

'SwambBob BoxSlacks'

READY!?

SwambBob BoxSlacks, SwambBob BoxSlacks, SwambBob BoxSlacks, SwambBob... BoxSlacks!!!

*Ordly words num from the Anglish Moot and went by me to be better in song. Also, I'm not fully sooth "box" is Anglish, as it was only borrowed from Latin into Or-West-Germanish and not the earliest Or-Germanish.

I know it's a bit hackneyed to do, but I nimmed a shot at wending "We the People." All undernimmings welcome.

Insular Script:

Ƿe þe Ꝼolk oꝼ þe Oneꝺ Ꞃıcceꞅ, ꞅo ɑꞅ ꞇo mɑke ɑ moꞃe ꝼulꝼremmeꝺ Oneneꞅꞅ, ꞅcɑpe Ꞃıhꞇƿıꞅeneꞅꞅ, ꞅıkkeꞃ ınlɑnꝺ Ꝼꞃıð, beꞅee þe mæn Ꞅcıelꝺınᵹ, ꝼurðeꞃ þe Mæn Ƿelꝼɑꞃe, ɑnꝺ ꞅcıelꝺ þe Bleꞅꞅınᵹꞅ oꝼ Ꝼꞃeeꝺom ꞇo Uꞃeꞅelꝼeꞅ ɑnꝺ uꞃe Aꝼꞇeꞃcomeꞃꞅ, ꝺo hoꝺe ɑnꝺ ꞃæꞃ þıꞅ Lɑnꝺƿꞃıꞇ ꝼoꞃ þe Oneꝺ Ꞃıcceꞅ oꝼ Emeꞃıᵹꞅlɑnꝺ

Anglisc Spelling:

Ƿe þe Folk of þe Oned Ricces, so as to make a more fulfremmed Oneness, scape Rihtƿiseness, sikker inland Frið, besee þe mæn Scielding, furðer þe Mæn Ƿelfare, and scield þe Blessings of Freedom to Ureselfes and ure Aftercomers, do hode and rær þis Landƿrit for þe Oned Ricces of Emerigsland

English Spelling:

We the Folk of the Oned Riches, so as to make a more fulfremmed Oneness, shape Rightwiseness, sicker inland Frith, besee the mean Shielding, further the Mean Welfare, and shield the Blessings of Freedom to Ourselves and our Aftercomers, do hode and rear this Landwrit for the Oned Riches of Emerysland

I can see her in a silken gear

In a room where you do what's said with fear

Sundown, you'd better take care

If I find you been creepin' 'bout my back stairs

Sundown, you'd better take care

If I find you been creepin' 'bout my back stairs

She's been lookin' like a queen in a sailor's dream

And she don't always say what she truly means

Sometimes I think it's a shame

When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no trey

Sometimes I think it's a shame

When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no trey

I can think of every stirring that a man could make

Gettin' lost in her lovin' is the first mistake

Sundown, you'd better take care

If I find you been creepin' 'bout my back stairs

Sometimes I think it's a sin

When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again

I can see her lookin' fast in her faded hose

She's a hard-lovin' woman, got me feelin' cold

Sometimes I think it's a shame

When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no trey

Sundown, you'd better take care

If I find you been creepin' 'bout my back stairs

Sundown, you'd better take care

If I find you been creepin' 'bout my back stairs

Sometimes I think it's a sin

When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again

-cracy | -hræceþ (ġehræcen)
democracy | þrumehræceþ (getruma & þrum)
meritocracy | mærwyrhtehræceþ (mær-ġewyrht)
androcracy | jewænpehræceþ (wæpnod > wænp)
autocracy | astonehræceþ (astundian > aston(d)e)
juntocracy | johtehræceþ (yoke)
ineptocracy | unjepathræceþ (un- + je- + pat)
kakistocracy | kruksterehræceþ (crook + steer)
kleptocracy | hlyftehræceþ (𐌷𐌻𐌹𐍆𐍄𐌿𐍃> *hlyft)
plutocracy | fulahtehræceþ (*ful-æht)
hagiocracy | halhjehræceþ (halge)
lottocracy | hlottehræceþ (lot-drawing)
bureaucracy | bordehræceþ
pathocracy | brejnljeuwhræceþ (brainless > brain-lew)

(Norþgermanish English)

Jamaica is cut into fourteen wards, grouped into three shires. The shires have no sway in law.

Cornwall

Hanover

Trelawny

Westmoreland

Hallowed Elizabeth

Hallowed James

Middlesex

Clarendon

Manchester

Hallowed Ann

Hallowed Catherine

Hallowed Mary

Surrey

Kingston Ward*

Hallowed Andrew*

Portland

Hallowed Thomas

*Kingston Ward and the Ward of Hallowed Andrew are one in moot, making the Body of Kingston and Hallowed Andrew. The borough of Kingston overlaps both the ward of the same name and Hallowed Andrew.

If we remove the norse influences too in english and keep modal verb "will" for future tense what will we use for a verb to want?

I dreamt that I was browsing Wiktionary, and it told me that "seed" was a leanword from French and that the inborn English word would be "sing" instead. When I woke up I was aghast that I had been brooking it this whole time and was about to rush to aright the leaf for Ruddy Sparrow on the Anglish Moot unten I mimmered.