SMALL WORDS ARE BEST
The history of English literature reveals the fact that poems and prose writings that have lasted were written in short words. Shakespeare kept himself mostly to one syllable words well chosen words which told just what he 'meant to say.
Today we note the power of words when we. listen to the speeches of Winstone. Churchill who, too, uses short words of the right weight and colour. It has been a bit shocking to some folk to learn that Churchill as a young student could not le * rl J Latin. One always supposed that nobody could write really good English without knowing Latin. So is this just another exuded" theory lof the ages?
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 38, 9 January 1945, Page 5
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117SMALL WORDS ARE BEST Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 38, 9 January 1945, Page 5
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