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Just by way of enrichment: One way in which English has "too many words" is that it has a Germanic and a Latin source word for almost everything. The Germanic (eg Grasp, though that's not a good example) tends to be older and the base in English (Angl-ish) and the Latin (via French) was imported and overlaid by the Normans as the sophisticated language of government. In English, you are rude in German, polite in French. The choice of Germanic or French root English is a very important choice. Hence our polite and impolite words for, for instance, things sexual. Ranulph