I consider myself to be anglicising the word ‘Port’. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Collins pronunciation is a mild and perfectly useable adaptation of the Italian, simply dropping the doubling of consonants, anglicising the "u" a little, and giving the final "a" as a schwa. ❋ Unknown (2005)
I was brought up on books like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; the 19th century US dialect was integral to the colour and sense of place, and there was never any question of anglicising them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Roodt has accused the government of having "an implicit policy" of anglicising South Africa and sidelining Afrikaans - a language rooted in colonial Dutch with smatterings of French, English, ❋ Unknown (2000)
Again, in spelling I have chosen a method not unknown to recent historians, which consists in anglicising familiar proper names that are household words, like Antony, Catiline, etc., but keeping the classical Latin form for persons less well known, as Antonius the grandfather of Mark Antony. ❋ Cassius Dio (N/A)
It might have been retorted that _Punch_, in the words of his prospectus, had frankly owned that he would give "asylum for superannuated Joe Millers," and even that Mr. Birket Foster had been actually employed in 1842 in "adapting" and anglicising Gavarni's drawings for _Punch's_ pages. ❋ M. H. Spielmann (N/A)
But interwoven with this anglicising tendency, which was also, by the bye, a Christianising tendency, was ❋ Unknown (1906)
Within a year our vermicelli, when we had it at all, would have warranted an anglicising of its first two syllables, and our rice, beans, and peas, as well as our store of grains and meal, began to discover a lively interest in their wartime surroundings. ❋ Unknown (1905)
But the practical fact remains; he it is that is anglicising Europe. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Eadgar had trouble enough on all sides, but the process of anglicising continued, under himself, and later, under his brother, Alexander I., who ruled north of Forth and Clyde; while the youngest brother, David, held Lothian and Cumberland, with the title of Earl. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
That anglicising of the ride comfort has made the Venga somewhat firm, in an attempt to imbue a "sporting" feel in accordance with Kia brand nuances. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Those involved didn't need much convincing that, with a little anglicising, the show could transfer to the West End. They were right. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For fifty years, older, wiser, activists have always warned younger activists against involvement in politics, constantly warning that the language will at some point be sacrificed by the nationalist parties faced with anglicising forces within their own parties and of course the absolute opposition to the language from unionists. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In just a few pages we find an outline of their understanding of Welsh history interpreted from this perspective: Tribal Wales conquered and consumed by the more productive feudal system of Edward I; the failure of Wales to develop its own national bourgeoisie as feudalism gave way to capitalism, and that because the bourgeoisie in Wales were either foreigners, or natives that had become British because it was that empire-state which guaranteed their class interests; the abscence of a national bourgeoisie meant that it was the petty-bourgeoisie who led life in Wales during the 19th century, a class whose efforts in the fields of religion and education were a means of anglicising and Britishising Wales further. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“The prevailing fault”, he says, “of English diction, in the fifteenth century, is redundant ornament, and an affectation of anglicising Latin words. ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)
