单词	anglicize
释义	anglicize /ˈaŋɡlɪsʌɪz / (also anglicise) verb [with object] Make English in form or character: he anglicized his name to Goodman (as adjective anglicized) an anglicized form of a Navajo word... This comic operetta tells the story of a South Sea Island despot who wishes to anglicise his island by importing all things English. For Owen, to whom speaking English has brought success and respectability, anglicising Irish place names represents the modernisation of Ireland as a nation. While not anti-English, it is decidedly pro-Gaelic (even insisting on Gaelic names in cases where anglicised forms are far more familiar to Scots) and tends to be anti-Presbyterian. Derivatives anglicization noun ... Our own town of Athy owes its name to the anglicization of the Gaelic place name Ath Í meaning the Ford of Ae. The Union had brought remarkable benefits but at the cost of anglicisation; as Scott put it, ‘what makes Scotland Scotland is fast disappearing’. A letter of complaint has been sent to An Post about the anglicisation of its name to The Post Office and a motion condemning this retrograde step was passed unanimously.
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