Latin vs Anglo Saxon Words by Boris Johnson

    11:47AM Jul 18, 2020

    Speakers:

    Boris Johnson

    Keywords:

    I think one thing that is incredibly important is to try to speak I fail totally in this I catch myself endlessly on the radio, you're waffling and blurbing and using all sites have endless Latin words in exactly that way and the more people listen to our short Anglo Saxon words that readily correspond to some object in the universe that they can identify. So, in other words, talk a talk simply use plain English and talk about stuff in the real world. Now, you know, Winston Churchill when he made his great speeches. With the things that really shot through into the public consciousness. What were they, it was, we shall fight them on the beaches, we will fight them on the landing grounds. We will fight them in the hills and in the streets, we will never surrender, which, which is the, which is the only Latin root word

    in that chunk,

    which is the only word that derives from a romance language surrender surrender correct.

    So, all the rest

    are simple English

    words

    that people understand. Absolutely. Clearly, and in some ways, with the path for the franchising and the and the, blah blah blah, Baba fishcakes, maybe it just turns into a great man I wonder whether

    sometime facha actually was clear she Yeah,

    she would say she would go on the Today program and she would say, yesterday we had a piece of cheese, and it was very good.

    And you know, or something like that, and it will be unbelievably clear. And you knew what she was.