Anglo-Saxon. You got it. On an ang/wikipedia.org, would it be alright to use the lanugage's own name for itself? (Englisc)
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Timwi Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:41 PM To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: FW: Wikipedia for Old English
James R. Johnson wrote:
Sorry - there have been about 6 million speakers at the height of usage of Old English. I guess it's like Latin in being a dead language, but just as deserving of a Wiki.
I am strongly in favour of a Wikipedia in the language that has the ISO code 'ang' -- but *PLEASE DO NOT* call it "Old English". Call it "Anglo-Saxon". Please. Seriously. That's very important.
If you call it "Old English", people will constantly attempt to write articles in Shakespearean, which is early Modern English.
Timwi
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