LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: Anglish

[Michael Everson]

To start with this sort of "cleanspeech" sounds like a very, very broad notion -- not like any one thing. What's the standard English for "The Kingly Wolkenmight"? Is this term found in your 1878 or 2009 sources?

On 11 Jan 2012, at 14:37, Sean B. Palmer wrote:

> LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
> 
> 1. Name of requester: Sean B. Palmer
> 2. E-mail address of requester: sean at miscoranda.com
> 3. Record Requested:
> 
> Type: variant
> Subtag: anglish
> Description: Anglish, a form of English using only Old English roots
> Prefix: en
> Comments: Sometimes called Anglo-Saxonised English, Saxonised English or
>   by jocular-colloquial terms including Ander-Saxon.
> 
> 4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
> 
> Covering forms of English where only words of Old English etymology are
> used, including coinages from Old English roots, calques, and extensions
> of sense.
> 
> 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or
> article):
> 
> * Barnes, William (1878). An Outline of English Speech-craft. London: C.
> Kegan Paul & Co. Reprinted under ISBN 978-1148214108
> * Cowley, David (2009). How We'd Talk If The English Had Won in 1066.
> Authors Online Ltd. ISBN 978-0755211678
> 
> -- 
> Sean B. Palmer
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