New Englishn.2
/ˌnjuː ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌnju ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/ 1. = Modern English n.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > Modern English
Modern English1700
New English1926
1926 Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1924 52 Tastes differ about the nomenclature ‘New English’—for of course the whole modern period from 1500 to the present is by definition..intended, not ‘present’ English.
1975 Working Papers in Linguistics (Ohio State Univ.) 18 30 In New English there are few or no instances of that co-occurring with who or which.
1989 Folia Linguistica Historica 9 ii. 78 Perfect structures with ‘be’..which used to be functionally very important at the beginning of the New English period..have been ousted almost completely in later periods.
2. Any variety of English which has acquired a distinctive character through use among a community of speakers for whom English is not a first language.
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1979 J. C. Richards New Varieties Eng. 14 The next step in this slowly increasing linguistic tolerance may hopefully be an understanding of the pragmatics of the ‘new Englishes’.
1986 R. McCrum et al. Story Eng. ix. 308 The Third World flowering of the language has produced some exotic hybrids, among them Caribbean English, Indian English, various forms of African English and Singapore English... The emergence of these new Englishes has been compared to the spread (and subsequent break-up) of Latin throughout the Roman world.
1993 Eng. Today Apr. 12/1 South African Indian English is worthy of the attention of sociolinguistics and scholars concerned with New Englishes, for a variety of reasons.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
New Englishadj.n.1
/ˌnjuː ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/, U.S. /ˌnju ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃ/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of New England or its inhabitants; (also) spec. relating to New England theology (see New England n. 2).
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > New England
New English1632
New England1638
Novanglian1679
down east1825
New Englandish1855
New Englandy1861
1632 R. Williams Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 184 Tis a ridle as yet to me whether you meane any Elder in these New English churches.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 51 It is..as empty as a New-English purse.
1713 S. Sewall Diary 16 Sept. (1973) II. 726 An August Speech, Shewing the Validity and Antiquity of New English Ordinations.
1863 ‘G. Hamilton’ Gala-days 211 I had a pleasant New-English feeling of self-gratulation.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 234 All their unconscious training by eye and ear, were New English wholly.
1969 William & Mary Q. 26 86 A loyal son of New English Puritanism who was forced as royal governor to carry out instructions specifically intended to remove the legal stanchions of the Congregational establishment.
1985 Amer. Lit. 57 327 The cross-fertilization between English and New English radical movements in the 1640s and 1650s.
With plural agreement. Inhabitants of New England. Obsolete.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > parts of
New Englander1637
bayman1641
New English1647
Novangle1650
Novanglian1752
Yankee1765
cracker1766
Yank?1778
bushwhacker1809
tuckahoe1816
southerner1817
Yengees1819
muskrat1823
blue belly1827
half horse and half alligator1828
Southron1828
northerner1831
westerner1835
Northman1836
Easterner1838
Far-Wester1843
southwesterner1845
western1846
sand-hiller1848
Vineyarder1851
mountain boomer1859
Far Westerner1862
blue-nosed Yankee1866
Appalachian1888
sloper1892
Ozarkian1893
rebel1895
reb1897
Middle Westerner1899
hillbilly1900
Midwesterner1916
Ozarker1920
Geechee1926
Middle American1944
upstater1944
Mid-American1959
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 3 Such as have given or taken any unfriendly reports of us New-English, should doe well to recollect themselves.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. iv. 23) 56 A certaine Indian comming into a house of the New-English.
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