Talk:Anglo-Saxon

Request for additional definition

English native speaker: a white speaker of English as a first language [http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/Anglo-Saxon.html 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?

Anglo-Saxon
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)


 * I would wait out the RFV just in case some citations pop up. --WikiTiki89 14:03, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Certainly 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)
 * 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)


 * RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 16:54, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

'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)

Adjectival sense Related to nations which speak primarily English
I wonder how common is this sense. Dictionaries: 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)
 * M-W does not seem to have it, only having a sense relating to Anglo-Saxons
 * Lexico does not have it
 * AHD does not explicitly have it, but one might read the def as including it by reference to descendants
 * Collins has it as sense 3
 * Macmillan has it as sense 2
 * cambridge.org has it a sense 2

A news story says "Russia Preparing Retaliatory Steps Against 'Anglo-Saxon' Media."; 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.', 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)