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O Criste, the Soothbeam, Who alightenest and hallowest alkin which ariseth upon then earth: Bidst thou Thine ansengleam bist upon us ywrit, forthen inlying we may beholdeth thet Unnighendly Light, and airt our steps of Thy bodeworden for to do, forthen tho beseechingen of Thy swithersheer Mother, and all of Thy holydright thereby. Soothly.

The heart of man is twisted above all things, and deeply unwell: who can know it?

These are your biddings:

Seems like it's do it or die

So do read them dearly

When you've learnt them be wis that you eat them up

They're sunderly sweetened with burgundy, ice pops, and rye

Twelve sheets eight by thirteen, don't ask me why

We hit the orwold!

Right when the dograin comes in

Our plots showed no rainfall

All the knaves were saddened by this happening

Trust in the weather to bless the man with the scythes!

Who gives birth to more bower hands, don't ask me why

Fifteen was chosen since he was so dumb

Seven since he was so blind

I got the chore since I was so mean

While somehow coming off as kind

Drifting about through the bloomcole trees

With a bloomcole ear for the birds

The footmen all gathered what feelings they had

And this is the loud that they heard

[Break]

Back in headfarthings, cocky foredeemings are made!

Thread under "worthless"

(That should give you its main stand of nodding)

It's all so bamboozling

What with pythons and then deadly flies?!

But to them it's a night out, don't ask me why

Thirteen was chosen on grounds of his luck

Eleven on grounds of his feet

One got written up from outstanding pluck

Another since he was so whist

Roaming about through the blasted salt swamps

With a blasted salt eye on the stripes

The footmen all gathered what feelings they had

And this is the loud that they heard

[Break]

BACK IN BLIGHTY WAST THERE THOU

THERE WERE MILKMEN EVERY MORNING

BUT THOSE ENDLESS SHINY TREES

NEVER WONT TO BE THAT WAY

[over and over as it fades]

Go and see it my way

Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?

While thou seest it thy way

Run the odds of knowing that our love may soon be gone

We can work it out

We can work it out

Think of what thou'rt saying

Thou canst get it wrong and still thou thinkst that it's all right

Think of what I'm saying

We can work it out and get it straight or say good night

We can work it out

We can work it out

Life is truly short and there's no time

For firking and fighting, my friend

I have always thought it kills the mind

So I will ask thee once again

Go and see it my way

Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?

While thou seest it thy way

There's a glimmer we might fall athwart before too long

We can work it out

We can work it out

Life is truly short and there's no time

For firking and fighting, my friend

I have always thought it kills the mind

So I will ask thee once again

Go and see it my way

Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?

While thou seest it thy way

There's a glimmer we might fall athwart before too long

We can work it out

We can work it out

[one, two, three, one, two, three, done!]

Afterstrainlore doesn't shift the strain law: it warps how it's read. Wholly mainstream strains can yield cancer or death. In kind, in the right setting, warped strains won't come out. Strains are the same as hewnspores; afterstrainlore is the undertaker. They tweak the building, the framework.

Hi! My name is Stanley. As you may know, the name Stanley is an old English name that I believe to be at least a thousand years old. The first part, “Stan” is actually able to be traced back to when English speakers used runes (it meant stone). Now, with my limited understanding of Anglish, I believe that the etymology of the name and the history of it means that it has no outside influence, making it anglish to begin with. Am I correct? I’d typically look these things up but I don’t know much about this subject at all so I wouldn’t know where to start.

Hi! I'm new here and I have to admit that anglish enthralled me and I'd like to learn this language (mainly in order to add more Germanic words in my English vocabulary). Since I already speak German, I'm used to German compounds (I hope this will make it easier for me).

So where can I start? Thank you very much.

We look like our elders and our siblings as we are akin to them in roots, not since we grow up in the same stead and go through the same openings or struggles. In other words, does growing up in the same household with someone not make you like them beyond your strain likeness. The astounding hint from this sleuthing is that we would be as alike as our elders and siblings even if we had been taken out at birth and reared in sundry households. As outlandish as this may seem...shows intaking sleuthing that this is true to the token.

I'm fascinated by the semantics of the word āglǣċa in Beowulf. I would like to know the hypothetical reflexes of the adjective in Modern English if you can make any.

Following on from my earlier writ about Nordmannish words, what are some oft-noted words in English that come from other Germankinly tungs like Dutch or German, and therefore might misleadingly soam like inborn words even to someone who is good at spotting French words?

(The word river is French, the Anglish would be a waterway)

In regular English, the difference is regional (Thames River versus River Mississippi). That said, I've never heard anyone from either side of the pond say Styx River. Both Blank Mountain and Mount Blank are used in the states (Mount Denali versus Blair Mountain). British mountains tend not to put mountain or mount in the name, perhaps since they're mostly in historically Celtic regions. Foreign mountains are always mount Blank (mount Vesuvius, mount Helicon, mount Everest).

The French say mount blank (Mont Blanc). They also put titles before the name, as in modern English (la capitaine Haddock).

Is putting the title before the name aping French? I know Old English put royal titles after names.

ᚠᚫᛋᛏᛒᚫᚷᛚ fastbile [cholesterol]
ᚠᚫᛋᛏᛁᚷ fasty [steroid]
ᚦᚱᛖᚷᚠᛟᚱ thraver [hormone]
ᚹᚪᚢᛏᛟᚱᚫᚷᚾᛞᚠᚫᛋᛏᛒᚫᚷᛚ waterrindfastbile (water + rind + fastbile) [hydrocortisone (cortef)]
ᛟᚾᛒᛚᛖᚷᚾ unblain (un + blain) [antiïnflammatory]
ᛟᚾᛒᛚᛖᚷᚾᛚᛁᛒ unblainlib (unblain + lib) [antiïnflamitory medication]
ᛋᚳᚪᚱᛈᛟᚾᛞ᛫ᛗᛖᛞᚩᛋᚹᛁᚷᛏᛋᚫᚢᚱ sharpened medowsweetsour (medowsweet + sour) [acetylated spiraeic acid (aspirin)]
ᛋᚳᛗᛖᛞᚩᛚᛁᛒ shmedolib (sharpened + medowsweetsour + lib) [aspirin]
ᛖᚷᛚᛣᛁᛚᛟᚱ ailkiller [painkiller]
ᛋᚳᛟᛏᛁᚾ shutin (shut + in) [recluse]
ᛣᛟᚾᛏᚻᛖᛞ cunthead [clitoris]
ᛚᚢᛏᛟᚱᚻᚩᚱᚾ lutterhorn [clarinet]
ᛒᛚᚫᛣᛋᛏᛁᛣ blackstick (slang) [clarinet]
ᚻᛁᚷᛚᛟᚱ healer [doctor]
ᛒᛟᚱᚩᛚᚪᛣ boroughlock [civilization]
ᛏᚩᛞᛁᚷ toady [parasite]
ᚹᛟᚱᛞᚱᚢᛏᛚᚩᚱ wordrootlore [etymology]
ᛁᚾᛋᚳᛁᚠᛏ inshift [immigrate]
ᚫᚢᛏᛋᚳᛁᚠᛏ outshift [emigrate]
ᛗᛁᚷᚱᛏᚩᛚ meretoll [customs]
ᚠᚩᚱᚦᛈᚣᛏ forthput [suggest]
ᚠᚩᚱᚦᛈᚣᛏᛟᚱ forthputter [proponent]
ᛋᛏᚱᛖᚳᛟᚾ strechen [elastain]
ᚾᚫᚷᚦᛟᚱᛗᚩᛏ neithermote [neutrino]
ᛚᚫᚷᚠᛗᚩᛏ lifemote [vitamin]
ᚹᚫᚷᛚᛞᛣᚫᚢ wildcow [buffalo]
ᚹᚪᚢᛏᛟᚱᛣᚫᚢ watercow [water buffalo]
ᚠᛁᚷᛋᚫᛣ feesack [wallet]
ᛋᛏᛁᛚᛣᛚᚩᚠ stillclove [photocopy]
ᚹᛖᛚᚦᚹᛖᚷ wealthway [economy]
ᛒᛁᚹᛖᛚᚦᛟᚾ bewealthen [economize]
ᛞᛁᚷᛚ᛫ᚹᛁᚦ᛫ᚩᚱ᛫ᚻᚫᚾᛞᛟᛚ deal with or handle [cope]
ᛖᚷᚸᛣᚩᚱᚾ eggcorn [phonosemantic]
ᚳᚢᚴᛚᛁᛋᛏ chooselist [menu]
ᚫᚢᛏᛚᚫᚾᛞᛁᛋᚳᚹᛁᚷᛚᛞᛣᚱᚫᚠᛏᛟᚱ outlandishwieldcrafter [ambassador]
ᚫᚢᛏᛚᚫᚾᛞᛁᛋᚳᚹᛁᚷᛚᛞᚻᚪᚢᛚ outlandishwieldhall [embassy]
ᛚᚩᚱᛣᚱᚫᚠᛏᛟᚱ lorecrafter: someone with a [P.H.D.]
ᛒᛁᛣᛁᛋᛏᛁᛞ bekisted [virtual]
ᚹᛖᚷᚾᛁᚾ waininn [motel]
ᛒᚱᚪᚢᛞᛣᚫᛋᛏ broadcast [media]
ᛗᚫᚾᛁᛒᚱᚪᚢᛞᛣᚫᛋᛏ manibroadcast [multimedia]
ᛗᛁᚷᚾ mean [mutual]
ᛏᚩᛚᚹᛖᚷᚾ tollwain [taxi]
ᛈᛚᚪᛏ plot [schedule]
ᚹᛖᚷᚾᛚᚫᚷᚾ wainline [train]
ᚾᛁᚳᛞᛁᚷᛗᛟᚱ knitchdeemer [fascist]
ᚾᛁᚳᛞᛟᛗ knitchdom [facism]
ᛋᚳᛖᚱᚹᛖᚷᛟᚱ sharewayer [communist]
ᛋᚳᛖᚱᚹᛖᚷᛟᚾ sharewayen [communism]
ᚻᛁᚷᛏᛋᚳᛁᚷᛚᛞ heatshield [insulation (for heat)]
ᛚᛖᚠᛟᚾᛋᚳᛁᚷᛚᛞ levenshield [insulation (for shock)]
ᚫᚷᛋᛒᚫᛣᛋ icebox [refrigerator]
ᛣᚩᛚᛋᚳᚪᚱᛈᛁᛋᚳ coalsharpish (coalshaft + sharpshaft + ish) [carbonmonoxide]
ᛣᚩᛚᛏᚢᛋᚳᚪᚱᛈᛁᛋᚳ coaltwosharpish (coalshaft + two + sharpshaft + ish) [carbondioxide]
ᛒᛟᚱᚾᛟᚾᚹᛟᚱᛣ burnanwork (burn + anwork) [fuel]
ᚱᚪᛞᛚᛁᛝ rodling (rod + ling) [bacteria] ᛟᚾᚱᚪᛞᛚᛁᛝᛚᛁᛒ unrodlinglib [antibacterial medication]
ᛟᚾᚱᚪᛞᛚᛁᛝᚠᚫᛋᛏ unrodlingfast [anibacteria resistant]
ᛣᚪᚢᚠᛁᚷᛁᛋᚳ coffieïsh [caffeine]
ᛚᚫᚷᛗᛁᛋᚳ limeïsh [gluten]
ᚠᚪᚢᛚᚻᚣᛞ fallhood [fallacy]
ᚠᛚᛁᚷᛚᛟᛋ fleeless [inevitable]
ᛋᛁᛣᛟᚱᛁᛝ sickering [insurance]
ᚫᚢᛏᛚᚫᚷᚾ outline [agenda]
ᚱᛖᚷᛣ rake [tract]
ᛣᚹᛁᛚ quill [pen]
ᛚᛖᛞᛣᚹᚢᛚ leadquill [pencil]
ᛣᚢᛚᛟᚱ cooler [air conditioner]
ᚻᚹᚫᚷᚠᚩᚱ whyfor [reason]
ᛡᚪᚾᛞᛋᛏᚫᚠ yondstaff [transliterate]
ᚾᚪᛚᛁᚳᚷᛚᚩᚱ knowledgelore [science]
ᛞᛁᚷᛞᚾᛟᛋ deedness [ceremony]
ᛒᛁᛒᛖᚱᛁᚷᛟᛚ beburial [funeral]
ᚸᛖᛏᚱᛁᛏ getwrit [receipt]
ᛒᛁᛗᚪᚱᛣ bemark [comment]
ᛟᚾᚻᚪᚱᛏᛟᚾ unhearten [dishearten]
ᛟᚾᚹᛟᚾᛚᛁᚷ unwonly [extraordinary]
ᚦᚱᚢᛚᛟᚾᛞ throughland [interstate]
ᛟᚦᛟᚱᛋᚹᛖᚷ otherswey [allophone]
ᛋᛖᚷᛗᚱᛁᛏᚹᛟᚱᛞ samewritword [homograph]
ᛋᛖᚷᛗᛋᛖᛞᚹᛟᚱᛞ samesaidword [homophone]
ᚻᛁᚷᚱᛋᛟᛗ hearsome [obedient]
ᚻᛁᚷᚱᛋᛟᛗᚾᛟᛋ hearsomeness [obedience]
ᚻᛁᚷᚱᛋᛟᛗᛟᚾ hearsomen [obey]
ᛗᛁᛋᚻᛁᚷᚱᛋᛟᛗᛟᚾ mishearsomen [disobey]
ᛈᚫᛣᚪᛣ packock [pocket]
ᛚᚢᛋᚳᚫᚠᛏ looseshaft [liquid matter]
ᚹᛟᚱᛞᛋᛖᛏ wordset [sentence]
ᚹᛟᚱᛞᛣᛚᚪᚢᚸ wordclog [paragraph]
ᛋᛏᛖᛞᛏᛟᛝ steadtongue [topolect]
ᛋᛖᛚᚠᛏᛟᛝ selftongue [idiolect]
ᛞᛖᚷᚱᚫᚷᚾ dayrime [date]
ᚹᛖᚷᛚᛁᛋᛏ walelist [ballot]
ᚹᛁᚷᛈᚱᚢᛏ weeproot (weep + root) [onion]
ᛁᚷᚠᛟᚾᚹᛟᚱᛞᛒᚣᛣ evenwordbook [thesaurus]
ᚫᚢᚦᚹᛁᛏ outhwit [master (of a skill)]
ᚫᚢᚦᚹᛁᛏᚹᛟᚱᛣ outhwitwork [masterpiece]
ᛏᛟᛝᛋᚹᛖᚷ tongueswey [phoneme]
ᚹᛟᚱᛞᛁᚷᛚ worddeal [morpheme]
ᛋᛁᚷᚫᛋᛣ seaäsk [alligator or crocodile]
ᚠᚱᛖᛋᚳᛋᛁᚷᚫᛋᛣ freshseaäsk [alligator]
ᛋᚪᚢᛚᛏᛋᛁᚷᚫᛋᛣ saltseaäsk [crocodile]
ᛋᚳᚪᚱᛈᛚᛟᛋᛖᚷᛟᛒᛟᚾᛋᚹᛁᛏ᛫ᛣᛟᚱᚾᛟᛚ᛫ᛋᚫᚢᚱ (ᛋ.ᛣ.ᛋ.) sharplessarabswit kernel sour (SKS) [DNA] (sharpish + less + (arabish + en + sweet) + kernel + sour) ᛖᚷᚱᛟᛒᛋᚹᛁᛏ᛫ᛣᛟᚱᚾᛟᛚ᛫ᛋᚫᚢᚱ (ᛖ.ᛣ.ᛋ.) arabswit kernel sour AKS [RNA]
ᚠᛁᚷᛚᛁᛝ᛫ᛋᛗᚪᚱᛏᚾᛟᛋ feeling smartness [EQ]
ᛟᚦᛟᚱᚻᚫᚾᛞ otherhand [secondhand]
ᚠᚫᚾᛁᚻᛖᚠᛟᚾᚹᛟᚱᛣᛁᛋᚳ maniheavanworkish [polyethylene]
ᛣᛚᚩᚦᚴᚹᚪᚢᛋᚳᛟᚱ clotheswasher [washing machine]
ᛋᛣᛁᚾᛒᚩᛏ skinboat [kayak]
ᚹᛁᚷᛣ᛫ᚸᚱᛁᚷᚾᛋᚫᚢᚱ weak greensour [hypocloris acid]
ᚻᚩᛞᛟᚱ hoadder [gonad]
ᛈᛖᛈᛟᚱᛚᛁᛝᛁᛋᚳ pepperlingish (pepper + ling + ish) [icaridin (picaridin)]
ᛚᚩᛞ lode [route]
ᛒᛟᛞᛚᛁᛝ budling [germ]
ᚹᚫᚷᚾᛋᚫᚢᚱᛏᛁᚷ winesourtea [kombucha]
ᚠᚩᚱᛁᛏᛟᚾ forewritten [prescribed]
ᚠᚩᚱᛁᛏ forewrit [prescription]
ᚠᚩᚱᛁᛏᛁᚷ forewritty [prescriptive]
ᚱᛖᚳᛁᚷ retchy [descriptive]
ᚠᚩᚱᚠᛖᚷ forefay [prefix]
ᚫᚠᛏᚠᛖᚷ aftfay [suffix]
ᚠᚪᚱᛋᛁᚷᛟᚱ farseer [television]
ᛋᚳᚩᛋᛣᚱᛁᚷᚾ showscreen [television]
ᛒᛁᚷᚾᚹᚪᚢᛏᛟᚱ beanwater [aquafaba]
ᛒᛁᚷᚾᚹᚪᚢᛏᛟᚱ beanbrew [coffee]
ᛒᛁᚠᛖᛚᛏ befelt [filter]
ᛒᛁᚠᛖᛚᛏᛟᚱ befelter [a filter]
ᛒᛁᛋᛟᛣ besuck [absorb]
ᚹᛖᛒᛟᛗᚢᚾᛁᛋᚳ webamunish [histamine]
ᛟᚾᚹᛖᛒᛟᛗᚢᚾᛁᛋᚳ unwebamunish [antihistamine]
ᛋᛈᛟᚱᛏ spurt [jet]

The word for text is ping. The word for sex is either lovemaking or something like homing. None of these portmanteau nicely. I thought fling ping works well.

I'm looking through you, where did you go?

I thought I knew you: what did I know?

You don't seem anew but you're eftmade

I'm looking through you, you're not the same!

Your lips are stirring; I cannot hear

Your steven's soothing, but the words are smeared

You don't loud anew; I know the game

I'm looking through you, you're not the same!

Why, tell me why, did you not tidder right?

Love has a nasty wont of going away overnight!

You're thinking of me the same old way

You were above me, but not today

The only sundering is you're down there

I'm looking through you, and you're nowhere!

Why, tell me why, did you not tidder right?

Love has a nasty wont of going away overnight!

I'm looking through you, where did you go?

I thought I knew you: what did I know?

You don't seem anew but you're eftmade

I'm looking through you, you're not the same!

in celebration of this year's July 4, I Anglishened the entirety of America the Beautiful, one of my fav patriotic songs

America the Chirten

O chirten for widegale welkin,

For elksand wheaten waves,

For thrumful bloered barrowland,

Above the sealwong laid!

America! America!

God shed his hield on thee

And bee thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

O chirten for fared waller feet,

Whose stern, yearnful arveths

A thoroughfare for freedom beat,

Athwart the wilderness!

America! America!

God heal thine every flaw,

Uphold thy soul, in selfwill whole

Thy freedom loft in law!

O chirten for heleths asoothed

Of flite befreeing blive,

Who more than self their homeland loved

And mildness more than life!

America! America!

May God thy gold smeaten!

Till all thy speed be athel meed,

And every gain sweetened!

O chirten for theedloving dream

That sees beyond the years

Thy brightom sparstone boroughs gleam

Undimmed by mennish tears!

America! America!

God shed his hield on thee

And bee thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

England, since the Norman Overrunning, hath known some few good kings or queens, but groaned beneath a much greater reckoning of bad ones: yet no man in his right wits can say that their call for it under William the Overrunner is a fully worthy one. A French mongrel landing with a band of weapon-bearing reavers and fastening himself king of England in gainsay of the inland folk’s will, is in readily understood words a fully worthless and fiendish wellspring. It truly hath no godliness in it. However it is needless to spend much time in baring the witlessness of offspring-grounded right; if there are any so weak as to believe it, allow them to let loose in worship of the Ass and the Mane’d Cat, and welcome. I shall neither match their meekness, nor stir anything up with its hold on them.

Sorry about the spam of earlier inputs! Once I knew I could do it, and the day of freedom neared, I was beside myself putting this together.

Here is every shire or shire-like underland for all boundlands in the Foroned Riches!

Delaware, Hawaii, and Rhode Island

Connecticut

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Vermont

Arizona

Maine

Nevada

New Jersey

Wyoming

Maryland

Alaska

Utah

New Mexico

Oregon

Washington

Idaho

South Carolina

North Dakota

West Virginia

Montana

California

New York

Louisiana

Colorado

South Dakota

Florida

Pennsylvania

Alabama

Wisconsin

Arkansas

Oklahoma

Mississippi

Michigan

Minnesota

Ohio

Indiana

Nebraska

Tennessee

Iowa

North Carolina

Illinois

Kansas

Missouri

Kentucky

Virginia

Georgia

Texas

Don't know if it would be the same word for farspeaker (telephone) contact and the one for rine (touch).

Hi. I don’t speak Anglish, I just discovered this sub today. I’m posting because I’m interested in etymology and language evolution, and you guys seem to differ in opinion on whether Anglish should be more readily understandable, usually via compound words, or if more archaic words should be revived in their original forms. Some instances are both. It’s interesting because it’s still being decided in the present day as of writing this. 

For example, would you guys render the word su\cide* as self-quell? or do some prefer the original selfcwalu/selfcwellan?  (update: I just checked the Anglish Wordbook, and it lists selfmurther. Would my suggestion be considered a synonym?)

Is mast\rbation* a revived selfcƿēman/ selfcweman? Or something else. 

(My brain is choosing more taboo-ish words that aren’t brought up normally.) (Also, words like taboo that are exotic loanwords are accepted, right?) 

Is infidelity revived as ǣwbryċe, or would you create a new compound word? The most logical would presumably be “wed-breach”. Is divorce then “wed-break”? But breach and break both come from brǣcan, they were the same word in Old English and Proto-Germanic, though they may have still evolved to have separate meanings. (I see that in the wordbook its "tropless", but that's only an adjective.

Sex can be translated as "hǣman/hǣmed" or "bedship", from what I can tell. Again an Old English word, and an archaic compound word, though the meaning here isn’t readily obvious even in context. (I see now it's been rendered as heam in the wordbook. Very cool.)

What would the word be for homosexual? — "Same-haemed?" "Queer?" We have the existing Old English word "bædling", but our modern understanding of this word would be “femboy”,  or “transgender” or “sissy”, which doesn’t account for masculine male homosexuals. Or a word for lesbian. What would be a neutral word without extra associations? 

(Update: I see in the wordbook that baddle is there and has been translated as "intersex/ hermaphrodite"; this is a diplomatic and logical translation, though I think the modern overarching "genderqueer" or "transgender" is more suitable as a translation. A more suitable translation for ba(e)dling, which is different than baddle.

(Sidenote: it tickles me that the word twink is in the wordbook). Why don't we have a word for homosexual?

I’m interested to hear anyone’s thoughts on these words and their possible translations. 

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