Request for additional definition

English native speaker: a white speaker of English as a first language copywrite MSN Encarta... someone paraphrase it!

The example I am thinking of is "Often Asian people choose to adopt an Anglo-Saxon name when they are in English speaking countries"

Anyone agree?

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Anglo-Saxon edit

Rfv-sense: noun, “Modern countries or societies based on or influenced by English customs.” I don’t know what this is supposed to mean, and the plural grammatical number just confuses the definition. Is Canada an Anglo-Saxon? Are the collective countries of the Commonwealth of Nations an Anglo-Saxon? Michael Z. 2014-01-01 20:50 z

I'd just remove it without bothering to wait for this RFV to fail. There's no noun sense corresponding to adjective sense 2. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 07:50, 2 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
Certainly anglo-saxon is used in French as an adjective in a similar way. Such as 'the Anglo-Saxon model' (used by Britain and America). Mglovesfun (talk) 04:17, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply
As an adjective, sure; in English too. But this RFV is for the noun Anglo-Saxon, which really only refers to the Germanic-speaking settlers of Great Britain between about the 5th and 11th centuries AD. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 08:30, 3 January 2014 (UTC)Reply


'Anglo-Saxon' is no longer used as a synonym for Old English in scholarly circles - this is antiquated Faust.TSFL (talk) 18:57, 16 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Adjectival sense Related to nations which speak primarily English edit

I wonder how common is this sense. Dictionaries:

  • M-W[1] does not seem to have it, only having a sense relating to Anglo-Saxons
  • Lexico[2] does not have it
  • AHD[3] does not explicitly have it, but one might read the def as including it by reference to descendants
  • Collins[4] has it as sense 3
  • Macmillan[5] has it as sense 2
  • cambridge.org[6] has it a sense 2

Is this a sense that you commonly recognize or do you find it in any way odd? Dan Polansky (talk) 08:20, 16 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

A news story says "Russia Preparing Retaliatory Steps Against 'Anglo-Saxon' Media."[7]; the use of single quotes suggests Bloomberg takes distance from that use of the term. Another similar story is 'Zakharova said Russia was preparing measures against “Anglo-Saxon media”, using a term Russian officials often use to refer to the English-speaking world.'[8], which again takes distance to the term as if the term was not expected to be used by native speaker. This leave doubt in me about how usual or weird this use is. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:30, 16 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

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