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- Winston Churchill is famous for his preference for Anglo-Saxon words over Latinate ones. However, if you look deeper you see that this is a myth. It was debunked 60 years ago and yet the myth persists.

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00:00 His Cigars, his with, his Anglo-Saxon words.
02:12 We shall fight them on the beaches and other speaches.
06:25 Origins of the myth.
09:33 "short words are best".
10:54 His writings.
12:27 His contemporaries and writing advice.

Professor Louis Foley's 1966 paper that debunks the Churchill Anglo-Saxon words myth
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2887&context=reading_horizons

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