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Uncleftish Beholding

"Uncleftish Beholding" (1989) is a short text by Poul Anderson, included in his anthology "All One Universe".[1] It is designed to illustrate what English might look like without its large number of words derived from languages such as French, Greek, and Latin,[2] especially with regard to the proportion of scientific words with origins in those languages. Written as a demonstration of linguistic purism in English, the work explains atomic theory using Germanic words almost exclusively and coining new words when necessary;[3] many of these new words have cognates in modern German, an important scientific language in its own right.

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