Hello,

Does anyone know anything about this site:

http://ednewenglish.tripod.com/index.htm

The first sentence describing it says:

"Ednew English is dedicated to an awareness and restoration primarly of native English words."

There are lists of prefixes, suffixes, verbs, and so on; but there is no information about who the author is.

There are lots of interesting words there, but I wonder if they are actually words. For example, is "Ednew" actually a word?

Thanks,

þ:

I am definitely interested, will contact you via e-mail, and promise to provide feedback. Ic thankie the!

þ: These are good tidings, indeed. I have been following this thread for some time, now, and I am very interested in where this idea is going. I am trying (not very well) to use more Germanic words, and less Romance words, in my daily usage, and it would be good to have a resource from which to start.

How will you make your draft known to people? I would very much like to read it when it is available.

So, who is compiling and organizing all of these good suggestions into something more easily readable?

Regarding eth and thorn, I agree: they should be restored (ednewed?). In fact, I think that they should stand for separate sounds: eth standing for the 'hard' th-sound (z.B. 'these') and thorn standing for the 'soft' th-sound (z.B. 'things'). I think Icelandic does things that way.

Another possibility is to follow Tolkien's example. Tolkien, in his Elvish languages, used 'th' for the 'soft' th-sound, and 'dh' for the 'hard' th-sound.

This Anglish idea is outstanding, and I enjoy reading about it. I hope someone is keeping track of the word-treasury that is being made here.

Waes ge hael!