Dear Sir, The English Fellowship and Cultural Society is launching a project to develop and promote ‘folk-English’ as the everyday language of English people. We intend that folk-English shall be [...]]]> To the secretary of the Engliscan Gesiithas.

Dear Sir,
The English Fellowship and Cultural Society is launching a project to develop and promote ‘folk-English’ as the everyday language of English people. We intend that folk-English shall be informed by the work done by David Cowley in books such as “How We’d Talk if the English had won in 1066”.
We believe that its language is the soul of a nation. It is our contention that the soul of the English has been under constant attack since the Norman Conquest. We wish to see the folk regain ownership of the language which should be our nation’s soul, but which has been in alien hands for a thousand years.
We see that the old speech clings on in the mouths of ordinary folk as championed by the regional dialect societies, and particularly in the North . As Common English spreads around the world filling the role of a modern koine or lingua franca, English as the nation’s soul is being further eroded.
We intend to register folk-English as a minority language in a United Kingdom in which the Common English koine (Engkoine) is the official language and is now the first language of the majority.
Will the Engliscan Gesiithas join us in our Fellowship in its fight to breathe life back into England’s soul through folk-English?

Looking forward to your positive response,
Yours faithfully,

Chairman of the English Fellowship and Cultural Society

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