https://simanaitissays.com/2026/05/20/usta-be-an-editor-yknow-part-2/Simanaitis Saysen2026-05-20T13:05:00+00:00USTA BE AN EDITOR, Y’KNOW PART 2Winston Churchill: Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.", Valerie Fridland: We are all "the product of centuries of linguistic reinvention.", "Preposition Alert" "SimanaitisSays", Morris Bishop: humorous poem with elaborate prepositions, 18th-century rhyming words: coughing/coffin brewing/ruin, "doth" evolves into "does", Professor Valerie Fridland: linguist at University of Nevada Reno, Winston Churchill (likely apocryphally): "up with which I will not put."https://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lede-2-1.jpg?w=150https://simanaitissays.com/2026/05/19/usta-be-an-editor-yknow-part-1/Simanaitis Saysen2026-05-19T13:05:00+00:00USTA BE AN EDITOR, Y’KNOW PART 1"The Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer to Shakespeare (giant leap) Founding Fathers to us (little difference), Old English: complicated verbs/complex word endings, "Like Literally Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English" Valerie Fridland, "Despite All the Likes Literallys and Dropped G's English Isn't Decaying Before Our Eyes" Valerie Fridland "The Conversation", "Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents" Valerie Fridlandhttps://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lede-1-1.jpeg?w=150