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by mcguire 2089 days ago
As was Churchill, who tried to get Roosevelt interested, leading to this wonderful letter:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Churchill_to_...

“Incidentally, I wonder what the course of history would have been if in May 1940 you had been able to offer the British people only ‘blood, work, eye water and face water,’ which I understand is the best that Basic English can do with five famous words.”