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In the year 1066 William the Misbegotten and his fellow Normans stormed into England, took wald from the Angle-Saxan, and set up a new, French-speaking lordship. Owing to this, French words bled into English over the yearhundreds, often taking the stead of inborn words with alike meanings. Today we can hardly speak English without leaning on French borrowings, and many folks are even unaware that English is in truth a Thedish tongue. Inborn words are reckoned to score between only 20 and 33 hundredths of our overall wordstock (though our everyday speech is still mostly Thedish).
The Anglish undertaking seeks to heal English, and rid it of its outlandish crutch. We do this in three ways: first, we choose to brook the inborn words we still have over alike outlandish words ("split" instead of "separate"); twoth, we breathe life back into dead words (Old English "wuldor" [splendour] becomes "wolder"); third, we twist words and make new meanings ("firsty" becomes "original")