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Anglicisation or
anglicization is a form of
cultural ****imilation
whereby something non-English
becomes ****imilated into or
influenced by the culture...
- po****rly
known as John
Cabot and
Christopher Columbus; English-speakers
anglicized and
Latinized the name of the
Polish astronomer Mikołaj
Kopernik to (Nicholas)...
- "Frenchified" to "L'Homme" or "De l'Homme" ('The Man'),
which he
himself later re-
Anglicizes to "Doom". Kirk,
Robert W.; Klotz,
Marvin (1965). Faulkner's People: A...
- ends (Ragnarök), Njörðr will
return to the "wise Vanir" (Bellows here
anglicizes Vanir to Wanes): In
chapter 23 of the
Prose Edda book Gyl****inning, the...
- In linguistics,
anglicisation or
anglicization is the
practice of
modifying foreign words, names, and
phrases to make them
easier to spell, pronounce...
- Byron's Don Juan, the
Russian general Suvorov (or "Suwarrow" as
Byron anglicizes it) is
described training the 'awkward squad'
prior to the
battle of Ismail...
- An
English exonym is a name in the
English language for a
place (a toponym), or
occasionally other terms,
which does not
follow the
local usage (the endonym)...
-
Biblical Hebrew name
Yohanan (יוֹחָנָן), Seán (
anglicized as Shaun/Shawn/Shon) and Séan (Ulster variant;
anglicized Shane/Shayne),
rendered John in
English and...
- Níðhǫggr, [ˈniːðˌhɔɡːz̠], lit. 'Níð-Hewer', "Malice Biter/Striker"?),
often anglicized Nidhogg, is a wyrm
dragon in
Norse mythology who is said to gnaw at the...
- The
Twipra Kingdom (Sanskrit: Tripura),
anglicized as Tipperah, was one of the
largest historical kingdoms of the
Tripuri people in
Northeast India. A...
