LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM: Anglish
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Wed Jan 11 16:02:09 CET 2012
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
>
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> Sean B. Palmer
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