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Actually, two rival academic movements tried to do just that to English. One group wanted to graft made-up Latin and Greek-derived words into the language, to make it more like the classical ideal and make pretend that we were the natural inheritors of Greco-Roman culture. The other group wanted to return it to a Germanic purity that had probably never existed. The first group won, mostly. If they hadn't, Stephen Fry wouldn't have a cushy job arguing about the plural of Octopus on BBC2.