It is quite true that as children native speakers learn phrasal verbs and mostly saxonesque wordstock first, and only come to the more academic and latinate words as a result of compulsory education.

Attacking the church and academia will indeed bring peril to your soul

Ængelfolc: "most women in European countries are NOT helping those countries ....... maintain the population" I believer you have the wherewithal to correct this situation... go forth and spread yourself as wildly as possible in the name of Anglish!

Incidentally where I live sheep used to outnumber humans by 25:1. but it's less so now.

Yes the question remains however will the number of native english speakers rise or fall in the next few decades, and how many will be motivated to clean up English? Or how would one motivate them?

Not quite yet, Shall we make it 2.5 billion at birth? Must use my glasses more....

It's funny how "hercog" is in hungarian and I never consciously connected it with German. I must be a right herbert!

Ængelfolc: "Most folks wouldn't take (or have) the time," (to find real enlish words)
I agree. Absolument!
"Most folks" wouldn't even have the inclination either. They are not exactly marching on the streets demanding a return to anglosaxon roots, are they? How might we change this?
Twoothly, (as owls say) who are "most folks"? I take it you meant native english speakers. IMHO they are in danger of being swamped by waves of immigrants, in much the same way as the Celts were after the Romans left England.
We should also think about how everyone is going to be fed too. When I was born there were less than 2 billion homids on this planet, now there are 7 billion and we are probably heading for over 9 billion in the next few decades. Given the limits of our current agriculture to produce enough fodder, how many are going to care about which word is really Saxon or not?
As Karl Marx said: Give them the means of self-destruction, and they will surely use it.
Lastly I use "put forward" instead of "suggest" as it already exists as a phrasal verb.
Denk mal daran!

"Old English is not really needed to speak true English." Oh thank goodness!!
I have always found modern languages more useful, unless of course one wishes to be a priest, although once or twice I have taught latin roots for academic words, only to be met with glazed-over cold-cod eyes from the students. Retirement beckons....

Ængelfolc: "Three-In-One" was the brand name of an lubricatigt oil in my youth. I used it on my bike. It is the connotations which give us cause for mirth.

Re "of": I wasn't very clear: I was thinking of phrases such as "the book of John", "a book of poetry" , "trousers of leather", where "of" is used to introduce a descriptive phrase, french styl, instead of something more Lederhosen-ish.

Finally, more travail, seeking to explicate the word "introduce" to a student, I flipped back to the beginning of the unit, only to find some smart bloke had used "lead-in" instead; and "foreword" at the beginning of the book. Now while it's nice to be anglish-minded, "introduce" and "introduction" are both in the top one thousand words of modern english and people ned to understand them. But so the evil contagion of Anglish smote......

Finally finally, I do struggle a bit with OE, never having learnt it and all,
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