ANGLIFY

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 364 words | Copyright

ANGLIFY [with or without an initial capital]. A usually informal and sometimes pejorative alternative to ANGLICIZE: ‘The greatest American linguistic investment by far has been the Anglification of the millions of immigrant and indigenous speakers of other languages’ ( Joshua A. Fishman, in Ferguson & Heath (eds.), Language in the USA, 1981).

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