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Adjective
unEnglish (comparative more unEnglish, superlative most unEnglish)
- Rare spelling of un-English.
1838 April, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XLIII, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T. Cadell, , footnote, page 513:George IV. who, whatever his faults, had a true British spirit and sentiments, declared both to be anti-British, and expressed himself in no measured terms at the time about giving the royal infant such unEnglish names.
1931, W. Somerset Maugham, “The Alien Corn”, in The Complete Short Stories, volume 2, London: Book Club Associates, published 1976, page 541:But though he spoke so tartly I could see that he was not a little proud of his scapegrace son, he loved him with oh, such an unEnglish love, and in his heart it flattered him that George had cut such a dash.
1998 July 6, Markus Laker, “Re: ***Strange Dialect”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:> You give /kO:t/ given as the "British" pronunciation for both, / Not I, but Mark Israel. The table you're referring to is taken straight from his FAQ. COD9 gives /kO:t/, and no other pronunciation, for both words. The much older OED2 gives /kO:t/ for 'caught', but for 'court' it gives /kO@t/, which sounds unEnglish to me.
2002 February 5, anton, “Re: Teachers told to instil pupils with white pride”, in alt.politics.british (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:Can't someone tell them that instillation of "white pride" at school is completely unEnglish? Important matters have to absorbed by osmosis: these things are not spoken of, except by colonials.
2007 May 25, Mike Lyle, “Re: pronunciation of "r" before WW1”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:This is very interesting from an Anglophone viewpoint. There may well have been a book about it - I don't know; but there were definite stagey pronunciations of English around the turn of the 19-20C. This repertoire included a very unEnglish trilled r, which as late as the 1960s was mistakenly regarded as desirable in careful speech by a few people.
2009 June 28, AlanG, “Re: Why should anyone benefit from crime?”, in uk.legal (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:I have no objection to 'convicted' criminals being forced to give up the loot. The idea of seizing someone's wealth without convicting them of a criminal offence is distictly unEnglish. It doesn't accord with the priciples of English justice I was brought up to respect. It simply turns the police and courts into thieves.