Anglo-saxon

//ˌæŋ.ɡloʊˈsæk.sən//

"Anglo-saxon" in a Sentence (14 examples)

The 100 most common words in English are Anglo-Saxon words.

Anglo-Saxon was to Norman as hen-pecked to uxorious.

What do you mean by 'White Anglo-Saxon'? Have there ever been any black, yellow or red Anglo-Saxons?

English is not the language of the world. It's the language of the Anglo-Saxon empire.

While the daughters of the Viking invaders were brought up by their English mothers and learned to speak good English, the little boys ran along with their fathers picking up less than grammatical English from them, as a result of which, to this day, poor grammar is associated with masculinity in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Harold II was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.

While small-minded, xenophobic or outrightly racist people falsely believe that only persons of Anglo-Saxon or German origin are to be considered Americans, the United States has long prided itself on being a so-called melting pot, embracing both its Indigenous population and immigrants who have settled there from elsewhere.

Persons of Anglo-Saxon or German origin are considered one hundred percent Americans.

A foot is a unit of length in the Anglo-Saxon system, corresponding to 12 inches and equivalent, in the decimal metric system, to 30.48 cm.

Both my brothers, Filipinos, married brunettes of Anglo-Saxon ancestry.

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Sometimes these chairmen are authoritarians, who wield the budget-book as a weapon - the junior staff members have some Anglo-Saxon words for them

I haven't eaten in two days. What's left to puke? You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon.

How fucked up is that? (Pardon my Anglo-Saxon)

[...] Ethnography thus aims at record- ing as accurately as possible the respective modes of life of various groups. Ethnology, on the other hand, utilizes for comparative purposes (the nature of which will be explained below) the data provided by the ethnographer. Thus, ethnography has the same meaning in all countries, and ethnology corresponds approximately to what is known in Anglo-Saxon countries—where the term eth- nology has become obsolete—as social or cultural anthropology.

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