>The term "Anglish" was made up by Paul Jennings in his 1966 Punch Articles. However, the desire to remove foreign influence from the English language is a trad

>The term "Anglish" was made up by Paul Jennings in his 1966 Punch Articles. However, the desire to remove foreign influence from the English language is a tradition that goes back all the way to the Norman invasion in 1066. The Normans were a Germanic, Old Norse-speaking tribe that raided and settled a part of France that is now known as Normandy. After a few generations, they adopted the French language before William I took over England. The French-speaking Normans being in positions of power throughout England is what led to the adoption of much of the foreign vocabulary that is in modern English today.