I’m A Bear of Very Little Brain
Well, Piglet,
What I’m thinking about is this.
There is a root for England. Anglophile. Anglicize. Anglican.
There is a root for China. Sinophile. Sino-Soviet split.
There are three roots for France. Francophile. Gallic. Cheese-eating surrender monkey.
But there are no roots for Germany. If I want to pronounce a kid’s name by making the w sound like a v, am I Germanicizing his name? The phrase seems awkward.