Why fix something that isnt broken quote

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Usage explanations of natural written and spoken English. Grammar Thesaurus. Word Lists. Choose your language. Even in the days of newsprint, 50 years is hard to swallow. Here is an barchart of the hits that a search for 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' finds in an very large archive of 20th century newspapers:. I would suggest that the notion and possibly a variant of the phrase may well have been around for some time before the s, but that the present-day wording of the phrase began then.

George Bernard Shaw's 'two countries divided by a common language' comes into play here. The phrase has to be American.