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The anglicisation of a personal name now usually depends on the preferences of the bearer. Name changes are less common today for Europeans emigrating to the United States than they are for people originating in, or descending from those who emigrated from, East Asian countries. Requests that the bearer anglicize their personal name against ...
In linguistics, anglicisation or anglicization is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand in English. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term commonly refers to the respelling of foreign words or loan words in English, often to a more drastic degree than that implied in, for example ...
Linguistic anglicisation is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand in English. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term commonly refers to the respelling of foreign words, often to a more drastic degree than that implied in, for example, romanisation .
Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. Áine is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna and Anne.
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The form of the name without diacritics is almost always the form that is more familiar to the reader. It is also the form that is more easily typeable and thus more useful for finding an article through a search engine and for links. The title should be a form that is mainstream usage in published English so it can serve as a usage model.
Owen can also be an anglicised form of the French name Ouen, as in the case of Ouen of Rouen, metropolitan bishop of Rouen, known in Latin as Audoenus, from Germanic Audwin and Aldwin with French variant form Audoin. The anglicisation of the French digraph ou to ow is common in words such as couard > coward, and Old French poueir > power, tour ...
I also propose that the article Anglicisation of names forms the basis for the linguistic anglicisation article, with the lists of anglicised names in that article transferred to English translated personal names. Jèrriais janne 18:27, 19 December 2022 (UTC)