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If 'anglophile' means one who admires England, what would be the equivalent words for Scotland, Ireland and Wales?

Question #54235. Asked by griffinj.

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gmackematix
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Caledonophile, Hibernophile and Cambrophile?

Jan 20 2005, 2:40 AM
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There doesn't appear to be an equivalent. Googling "admirer of england" for example turns up links to definitions of "anglophile" and that sort of thing, but not so for "admirer of [the others]".

*Englishman biting tongue, hard*

Jan 20 2005, 3:54 AM
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The Oxford English Dictionary lists Scotophobe, Scotophobia and Hibernophobe, but no corresponding words for lovers of those nations (unless they’ve crept into the later editions).It also gives Cambro- as a “combining form” for “pertaining to Cambria, Welsh.”

Analogy with these forms would give Scotophile, Hibernophile and Cambrophile. However, Scoto- might cause confusion with scoto- (which has to do with darkness), so maybe (as gmackematix suggests) a form based on Caledon- would be better.

Jan 20 2005, 4:41 AM
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When I checked, Google brought up the following:
Anglophile: 109,000 pages
Francophile: 77,900 pages
Scotophile/Caledophile: 1,133 pages
Australophile: 323 pages
Americophile: 248 pages
Hibernophile: 124 pages
Cambrophile: 6 pages

I'm not drawing any conclusions from that.

For completeness' sake:
Celtophile: 4,610 pages
Gallophile: 879 pages

Jan 20 2005, 12:50 PM
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Gallophile and Gallophobe are both in Chambers Dictionary.

Jan 22 2005, 10:08 AM
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