Hey Anwulf, to be fair I reckon it would have ended up as the word 'stitch', you know, as in ' not wearing a stitch'. I think this phrase has confused its meaning over time as people infer the meaning thread due to clothing. I suppose the word 'steak' is another likelihood, as beef steak is just a variant of the word piece of cow. I yeasay the modernising of 'stitchmeal' but 'bitmeal' is also a mightlihood and existed in OE, plus it's more atgoly from present words in use.

I'm pretty sure that parliament would be something like 'wittenmoot' and government just plain 'witten'.

Seeing as we've the suffix ' -ric' at the end of 'bishopric' can't we maintain this spelling? So then 'ricdom' or even 'rickdom'.

Oh and I thought the suffix '-lic' in OE gave us the nowadays '-ly' ?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ordfruma

Ordfromer - creator (OE ordfruman)

Seeing as Fruma is akin to 'from' then maybe 'frome' really is better for an anewing of the OE word... I know, I know, Im getting besotted...but I'll be hellfired if a word that should be rightly updated gets stopped in its path by a bunch of ignorant kids who have misbrooked it for a 'minge' :/

I like the word 'upspring' but still think that there's a place for fruma and orde in their ordfrim/original meanings... after laughing my way through the Urban Dictionary online then I was aware fairly quickly that on that site no word is hallowed, and nearly every likely variation of a word in English has a double meaning on there. So I suppose we've just got to set about reconditioning words.

Bingo! Phrasal verbs truly are the last vestiges/overlings of English, they are where are older words live on in their ordfrim(original) context. Things such as ' it hinges on' almost an evenlike of the German ' das haengt davon ab' and beautifully edholds/ retains the old irregular simple past of hang. Hurray for phrasals, but they need to be regularised to make them standard and easier to learn. Phrasal verbs are f@ckers for outlanders trying to learn English as they've no almeanlaw. Monoglot anglophone linguists love these quirky unlearnables as they falsely believe it makes English unigue and outstanding to other EU tongues - no, it makes it unneedly difficult and muddlesome.

By the way, did English ever have a suffix like '-able' ?

Hey Thorn,

Backpatting of the highest rank to your bones!
Love it when someone with brains-for-brawn bethinks their idea is worthy of putting down on paper. You are right in your hinting that we should all write more, and shape gobbets/titbits of speach in the style we want to see the English tongue wend in.

I would heartily like to read your wordbook, sounds like a deed of strength/ tour de force keep us all posted on its forthgang.

@Jayles...

On further inspection/ throughsight it seems that the word 'frume' is not widely used as a colloqialism for 'lady bits'...though odd that the word should be used to beshow the 'source' of human/werekin life. There's a place in England called Frome, they claim it hithers to us from OE ffraw meaning fair... I think it's most likely akin to the word 'fruma'.

@Thorn,

Cowley, though suggesting the weird and wonderful edlivening of words long since out of daily use, does firstly suggest in his book that we should broaden the scope of the English words we have already. Use them as an 'ord' of wordhoard and then up their input in our quides/sentences.

@Jayles

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Respect!!!

What a bloody tragedy that the word's been coined, as the OE word for origin would indeed give us the modern word 'frume', ah well back to the drawing board with that... but ''frume-friendly' is one helluva a word!