• systems. Anglicisation first occurred in the British Isles, when Celts under the sovereignty of the king of England underwent a process of anglicisation. The...
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  • spelling, but anglicised phonetically in being pronounced /ˈpɑːstə/ in American English and /ˈpæstə/ in British English. The anglicisation of non-English...
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  • England. Anglicisation can also refer to: Anglicisation (linguistics), the process by which a non-English word is influenced by English Anglicisation of names...
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  • The anglicisation of personal names is the change of non-English-language personal names to spellings nearer English sounds, or substitution of equivalent...
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  • their anglicisations and/or English language equivalents. Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form...
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  • Mumbai, Madras is now Chennai and Calcutta is Kolkata, in an attempt to de-anglicise them. In this work, the earlier names are retained since these names were...
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  • the Scottish Gaelic surname has also been Anglicised as Currie. The surname MacMhuirich has also been Anglicised as Macpherson, due to a confusion of clan-names...
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    "Asp" is the modern anglicisation of the word "aspis", which in antiquity referred to any one of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region...
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  • The traditional English pronunciation of Latin, and Classical Greek words borrowed through Latin, is the way the Latin language was traditionally pronounced...
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  • The variant Kevan is anglicised from Caoimheán, an Irish diminutive form. The feminine version of the name is Caoimhe (anglicised as Keeva or Kweeva)....
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    Ulster. According to the Durnings, the surname Akin can also be an Anglicisation of the Irish name Ó hÓgáin (O'Eakin). The O'Eakins are stated to descend...
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  • suffix Anglicisation of Irish buí, Scottish buidhe. brack, breck I, SG mottled, speckled Ballybrack, Mullaghbrack, Dumbreck suffix Anglicisation of breac...
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  • Caoimhe (/ˈk(w)iːvə/ K(W)EE-və, Irish: [ˈkiːvʲə]), sometimes anglicised as Keeva, is an Irish feminine given name derived from Irish caomh (Old Irish cóem)...
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    Viðey (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈvɪːðˌeiː] ; sometimes anglicised as Videy) is the largest island of the Kollafjörður Bay in Iceland, just outside the...
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    "Italians", but by 1865 the breed was known as "Leghorn", the traditional anglicisation of "Livorno". The breed was introduced to Britain from the United States...
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  • feminine name Patricia. Pádraig is also sometimes anglicised as Paddy or Podge; the former anglicisation is often used, sometimes pejoratively, as a term...
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    Rathindranath Thakur (anglicised as Rathindranath Tagore, 27 November 1888 – 3 June 1961) was an Indian educationist, agronomist, painter, in leathercraft...
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  • Connor is an Irish male given name, anglicised from the compound Irish word Conchobhar, meaning "justice", "master of hounds", or "lover of wolves". The...
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  • Dilara Fındıkoğlu (born September 5, 1990), commonly anglicised as Dilara Findikoglu (/dɪˈlɑːrʌ fəndək.oʊlʊ/), is a Turkish-English fashion designer. Fındıkoğlu...
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  • Neil is a masculine name of Irish origin. The name is an anglicisation of the Irish Niall which is of disputed derivation. The Irish name may be derived...
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    (/ˌɛrɪn ɡə ˈbrɑː/ ERR-in gə BRAH), sometimes Erin go Braugh, is the anglicisation of an Irish language phrase, Éirinn go Brách, and is used to express...
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    Rory (category Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language given names)
    Rory is a given name of Gaelic origin. It is an anglicisation of the Irish: Ruairí/Ruaidhrí and Scottish Gaelic: Ruairidh/Ruaraidh and is common to the...
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  • some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate, in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an...
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    which the title refers are historically spelled Caernarfon, having been Anglicised to Carnarvon or Caernarvon. The traditional Welsh spelling is itself a...
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  • Danglish is a form of speech or writing that combines elements of Danish and English. The word Danglish is a portmanteau of Danish and English and has...
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    Romanization of Bulgarian is the practice of transliteration of text in Bulgarian from its conventional Cyrillic orthography into the Latin alphabet. Romanization...
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  • however mostly reserved for forced, excessive exercises in anglicisation, or pseudo-anglicisation, of the German language. Under Benito Mussolini, efforts...
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    Cornish. These names were later Latinised as Albania [citation needed] and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland. New Albion...
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  • The name Moira, sometimes spelled Moyra, is an Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire, the Irish equivalent of Mary. Transliterated with Greek letters...
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  • of English and Irish origin derived from the occupation of cook and anglicisation of various Gaelic names. Variants include Cook and McCook. Cooke (rather...
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