Traditional English language practice I have changed the phrase The traditional English language to The traditional American English language practice because I have never heard of anyone in England call Robert Graves a Geman English or a English German There are currently hundreds of thousands of Germans in Britain They are either expat Germans or English The kids of an Anglo German marrige would usually be either German or English depending where they spent most of their childhood as was the case with Robert Graves BTW I have looked at the article German Briton and noted Talk German Briton Point of article