anglicize

How To Use anglicize In A Sentence

• In between the 9th (1987) and 10th (1993) editions, the M-W lexicographers discovered that the people who had imported the bird into the western US called it simply "chukar," not "chukar partridge," and furthermore pronounced it in a completely anglicized form, not knowing or caring that that made it a homophone of some polo term. Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.
• This comic operetta tells the story of a South Sea Island despot who wishes to anglicise his island by importing all things English.
• This step suggested that the most important resource for the exchange of ideas, and the surest to offer the most promising and profitable transnational education, was no longer anglicized Latin but rather rebranded English. The English Is Coming!
• _So few_ has long been denizened; no wonder, since it is nothing more than _si peu_ Anglicized. Among My Books First Series
• I later learned that gingelly was actually the Anglicized version of the Indian word gingili, which is why it was thought of as an English word. Hungry Magazine
• While not anti-English, it is decidedly pro-Gaelic (even insisting on Gaelic names in cases where anglicised forms are far more familiar to Scots) and tends to be anti-Presbyterian.
• A communist and uncompromising anti-militarist from well before Hitler rose to power, he was born Herzefeld and anglicised his name as a protest against rampant nationalism during the war.
• The minority are much more Anglicized Creoles centered in and around the capital city of Freetown.
• The Battenbergs also anglicized their name to Mountbatten.
• When Dutch colonial rule ended in the 19th century the civil service was anglicised.