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This is lots of fun. ‘Uncleftish Beholding’ is a 1989 attempt to explain ‘Atomic Theory’ without using words that come to English from Latin, French or Greek roots.
It reimagines English as Germanic: ‘uncleft’ is ‘atom’ etc.
https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/docs/uncleftish-beholding.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
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