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The article complained that Europe's "war of nerves" over the euro, from which many North Europeans would like to see Italy excluded, had split the continent into three blocs--Franco-German, Anglo-Saxon, and South European.
The language was not called Anglo-Saxon by those who spoke it, but Englisc from Engle Angles, Anglo-Saxon being simply the earliest form of the language.
Answers to Anglo-American Crossword No.
Memsahib `term of respect for a European lady,' for example, derives from English ma'am and Hindi sahib `sir, master,' a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah `peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah `person in charge of a particular thing'; chotapeg `half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota `little, small' and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage `commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf `banker, money-lender,' a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age . Combinations of Hindi and Persian elements include:
Ever since the Norman invasion, people have preferred to use the longer Latinate terms over the blunt Anglo-Saxon words: the general feeling, with some small basis, is that such diction shows a touch of class.