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Anglic

Anglic \An"glic\, a. Anglian.

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Anglic can refer to:

  • Old English and the other Anglic languages descended from it.
  • A person of any race who is an Anglophone, by analogy with Hispanic
  • A simplified system of English spelling invented by the Swedish philologist Robert Eugen Zachrisson in 1930. ( Swedish Wikipedia)
  • A fictional future variety of English in the science fiction novels of Poul Anderson, David Brin and John Brunner's Into the Slave Nebula.

See also Anglish.

Usage examples of "anglic".

Her Anglic was North American, almost-but-not-quite Taxpayer class, the voice of someone who carefully copied the upper-class accents on the Tri-V.

But after the old man at the crossroads Cerenkov had no intention of assuming none of the guards lined up against the cell wall understood Anglic.

Even speaking Anglic normally, fins usually sounded as if they were giving the listener a long series of razzberries.

Library to use colloquial Anglic, hiring Kanten, Tymbrimi, and others as consultants.

Such japes as he heard in Anglic were gentle rather than stinging, laughter was more a deep clucking than a shrill peal.

The Anglic was rapid-fire, a language coequal in the Trains with Haisun and its argots.

More serious anomalies included his dialect of Anglic, his ignorance of the native language, his imperfect imitation of manners, gait, a thousand subtleties.

Ur-Jah, our eldest sage, aspirated in Anglic, the native tongue of our youngest sept.

He was about to suggest turning around and taking a long detour, when the sound of his Anglic cursing attracted attention from a tall, camellike being, who turned to regard Harry with coal-black eyes.

Since there were no humans present, Creideiki did not have to use the crisp consonants and long vowels of standard Anglic.

Anglic words hissed from atop the swaying stack of fatty rings, accompanied by liquid burblings and mucusy pops.

Among so many humans, the urs could not use a plains dialect of Galactic Two but made do with Anglic, despite the handicap of a cloven upper lip.