Word: anglo-saxon
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...When I have been fortunate enough to travel to London, I hear the many dialects but see through to the German and Anglo-Saxon roots, the transparencies just beyond. The idiom is more immediate, or in an alternate-universe way. How did we settle on "Call me" instead of "Ring me"? "Putting me on" instead of "having me on"? Drugs money, way out--the Latin "exit" just wrenches you ever after! When you are frustrated by a friend, do you say, "it really does me brains in?" Will you next time, instead of "it bugs...
...Professor of English Daniel G. Donoghuewill teach "Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: TheMillennium" in the fall...
...French government, which until recently took an active role in overseeing takeover deals in the financial sector, has remained silent at the outburst of cannibalism. "France is eager to remain in the race, and there's an overall feeling that [its institutions] have to be a bit more Anglo-Saxon, more market oriented," De Lamaze says...
...Church, Calvinistic Protestantism, commercially adept, militantly expansionist, and highly convinced, in Old World, New World, or both, that it represented a chosen people and a manifest destiny. In the full, three-century context, Cavaliers, aristocrats, and bishops pretty much lost and Puritans, Yankees, self-made entrepreneurs, Anglo-Saxon nationalists, and expansionists had the edge, especially in America...
Following a discussion of everything from St.Augustine to Magna Carta to Chaucer, Brown saidhis interviewer "put two photocopies ofmanuscripts--one Latin, another Anglo-Saxon--infront of me and said, 'Now read and translate...