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    An inkhorn term is a loanword, or a word coined from existing roots, which is deemed to be unnecessary or over-pretentious. An inkhorn is an inkwell made...
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  • Anglish, a term coined by author and humorist Paul Jennings in 1966. English linguistic purism has persisted in diverse forms since the inkhorn term controversy...
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  • words of Zulu origin Anglicisation English terms with diacritical marks Inkhorn term Linguistic purism in English List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents...
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  • verbs. Anglicism Chinese Pidgin English Cognate Gallicism Germanism Inkhorn term Loanword Metatypy Semantic loan Translation Wasei-eigo Engrish Notes...
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    roots (such as word stock for vocabulary). This dates at least to the inkhorn term debate of the 16th and 17th century, where some authors rejected the...
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    its French etymon manchette means "cuff". Bilingual pun Hybrid word Inkhorn term Language contact Neologism Phono-semantic matching Reborrowing Semantic...
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  • include 文化 bunka ('culture') and 革命 kakumei ('revolution'). Gairaigo Inkhorn term Language contact Loanword Wanderwort Word coinage Imperative form of...
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  • English. Early modern Britain English literature History of English Inkhorn term Elizabethan era, Jacobean era, Caroline era English Renaissance Shakespeare's...
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  • were not adequate to describe that vision in full." Diglossia Euphuism Inkhorn term Inventio Literary language Neologism Fowler, Alastair. The History of...
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  • wordes (which by reason of antiquitie be almost out of use) or els inkhorn termes (as they call them) which the common people for lacke of Latin do not...
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