the English language in a simplified spelling devised by R. E. Zachrisson (1880–1937), a Swedish philologist, to make English easier to use as an auxiliary language. About 40 of the most frequent words are kept in their usual spellings; the rest of the vocabulary is spelled phonetically with letters of the traditional 26-letter alphabet.
1865-70; < Medieval LatinAnglicusEnglish, equivalent to Late LatinAngl(us) Angle, Germanic-speaking inhabitant of Britain (LatinAngliī a continental tribe mentioned by Tacitus; cf. Angle) + -icus-ic