angling

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There’s a long history of people anglicising their names, including on CVs.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2022

A casting director persuaded him otherwise, so he kept "Anthony" and added "Curtis", anglicising a common Hungarian surname.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2010

M. de Schickler and M. Jusserand have rescued from long oblivion Claude de Saint-Lien, who, quaintly anglicising his name into Holy-Band, began earning his bread by teaching his mother tongue.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

But the practical fact remains; he it is that is anglicising Europe. 

From Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

Thus, in anglicising the orthography of chemise, he resolves that foreign substantive into the home-grown neologisms, masculine and feminine, of Hemise and Shemise.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852 by Chambers, Robert