a project and creative writing style that strips the English language of non-Germanic loanwords mostly from French, Latin, and Greek and replaces them with native Anglo-Saxon or Germanic roots. The name was coined in 1966 by writer Paul Jennings, though the idea of "pure" English dates back to the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the 16th-century "inkhorn controversy. A famous example is a science fiction writer Poul Anderson wrote an essay called "Uncleftish Beholding" in 1989, which explained atomic theory using only Germanic words (calling atoms "unclefts" and uranium "emir stuff").
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