Englishness

Examples

• All

• Many people celebrate their Englishness through traditional music and dance.

• And insofar as he understood Englishness, he understood it in communal terms.

  Academic text (2000)

• I found myself arguing that finally Englishness has become a matter of culture.

  Triggernometry

• And so I think Englishness is going to come back onto the agenda quite, quite soon.

  Triggernometry

• But her deeper suspicions are of his Englishness and of what the army is doing in Ireland.

  Academic text (2000)

• He learns or creates a certain style of Englishness that he then goes on to teach to the English themselves.

• And I thought that was an inspired choice because there's a kind of Englishness that sits with John le Carre's work, which is great.

  GQ

• An interesting byproduct of these developments has been the way in which Englishness as an identity has been increasingly posed as a question for public debate.

  Academic text (2003)

• Some of the English were attempting to invent a national community: they convinced themselves that their Englishness was an essential rather than a contingent fact about their identities.

  Academic text (1999)

• Meera had been charmed by what she saw as the city's Englishness: the clubs and parade grounds, the tailor shops specializing in suits, and the bungalow-style houses braced against the flowers.

  Fiction book (2002)

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology