Folks wanting to find out how to make headway in cleaning English of most of the foreign words should read about Philipp von Zesen and Joachim Heinrich Campe. Their work in part was making German words to put in stead of foreign ones, and then popularizing them. All I can say is, it worked rather well.

Also, it is likely that not many Englishmen are aware of William Barnes and his book, "Elements of English Grammar " (London, 1842). His goal, which he took very earnestly, was to "keep up the purity of the Saxon English language". He also wrote "Outline of English speech-craft" (1878).

@jayles: "Attacking the church and academia will indeed bring peril to your soul"

LOL! I think not...peril to a mainstream academic career maybe! I don't mind that. Who said anything about attacking the church? I can more easily accept their input into English, than that of wanton academic borrowing.

@jayles:

Yes, I think you have something there...going after businesses would be better. I am a businessman, and was curiously looking over a letter from an engineer to see how much of the words were actually Latin (like I did with the church letter). Again, I was shocked! About 75% of the words in the letter were Germanic. It seems that it is only in academic circles where we see a lot of Latin and Greek.

@jayles:

Yes, I'll breed true English speakers!! LOL! Funny enough, I read a letter from our parish priest, and reckoned the percent of Germanic and Latinate words. What did I find? Astonishingly, it turned out to be roughly 80% English, 20% Latin. There is hope!

"Or how would one motivate them?"

How were they "motivated" to dirty it up?

That would put you in the 61-65 range. World pop in 1950 was 2,521,000,000. ;-)

There are many, many Germanic borrowings in the tongues East of Germany...take a look at Polish and Czech. Spelling is a slightly off, but the word and meaning are still the same.

@jayles: "When I was born there were less than 2 billion homids on this planet, now there are 7 billion "

If this is true, you should be around 83+ years old. Hmmm.

I have read that the "Day of 7 Billion" is to either be 26 Aug 2011-July 2012. And? What can be done to stop the population from growing? What ever happened to "natural selection"? Steve Jones (University College London)has put forth that humans are "10,000 times more common"...so he means that there should only be around 700,000 human beings? Paul Ehrlich (writer of the book,"The Population Bomb") said that "We [humans being] will breed ourselves into oblivion." Really? Do tell...

Of course, the "father" of this idea, as we all know, was Thomas Malthus' "An Essay on the Principle of Population as it Affects the Future Improvements of Society, with Remarks on the Speculations of M. Godwin, M. Condorcet and Other Writers".

Look on the bright side, if Japan continues with their "anti-human" policies, by the year 3000, only 500 Japanese will be living! ;-) That's about a 99.999608027594851322044528065224% reduction in the Japanese population! Wow!

Think about this, most women in European countries are NOT helping those countries (Spain, England, Germany, Denmark, asf) maintain the population. Europe is not doing itself, or the World, any noble service. In fact, 83 countries and territories (about 44% of the World population) are thought to be in the "below-replacement fertility" mess.

It is worth looking at 'mean global age'. In 2050, it is estimated to be 38 years. Curiously, in 2010 it was 28.4 years. What could this mean?

May I put forth this website as a place to "denk daran": http://www.pop.org/projects/debunk-overpopulation-myth

"how many are going to care about which word is really Saxon or not?" Good thing FOOD, HUNGRY, THIRSTY, NEED, HELP, THANK YOU, and GOD are ALL worthy Anglo-Saxon words!

My 2 Marks. Now back to Ænglisc.

@Stanmund: "Furthermore what about 'sprog' in 'army sprog' -- 'here sprog' ?"

Look up the way in which this word is meant in Australian slang. I hardly think it a good fit for your meaning.

Why try to make a new word when 'heretoga' already is an English word? The words 'here' (army), 'herebert' (skillful army general), 'hereberga' (army barracks), 'heregyld, heregeld,heregeold' (military tribute), herewǣpen (war weapon), herewic (military encampment) asf, are all Anglosaxon (English) words that sadly were put aside. 'Heretoga' is an everyday Teutonic word. Today, 'here' is at the roots of the verbs harry and harrow.

@Stanmund:

"Herzog" has Here, heer "army" in it. "Herr" nor "Here,Heer" is not from "Herzog".

Herr Gothic harjis, Danish hær, German heer, O.E. here (also fyrd), Old Saxon heri.

English 'harry' (to ravage) is from OE hergian (to destroy, lay waste to) with bearing from Norse herja (OE herg- + ON herja).

Herr "gentleman, sir, superior, master, lord" is from P.Gmc. *hairaz "old, venerable" >> ON hárr "gray", herra "to knight", OE hār, OHG hēr, Old Saxon hērro, Gothic hais.

"how about 'tugger' making a good shortened name for 'heretug'" I do not think so.