Anglist

noun

An·​glist ˈaŋ-glist 

plural Anglists

: a specialist in English linguistics : anglicist

This volume, presenting papers delivered at the Third International Corvey Symposium in 1997, is published in honour of Rainer Schowerling, the Anglist responsible for the momentous rediscovery of the Corvey Library in the 1980s.

—Hilary Brown

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above