Gramer Girl here.

I'm in Yon Fogarty and this week I have a tidbit about why we say something has gone

by the wayside.

In a meeting middle about movies we call biopics.

Or are they biopics?

Let's start with the tidbit.

Have you ever missed a deadline or failed a test?

You may have planned to prepare but then something happened in those plans fell by the wayside.

But what is the wayside anyway and does it hurt if you fall by it?

Let's find out.

We'll start with the word way.

A way is a road or a path as in highway, by way.

Are the phrase going my way?

You've probably said that before.

The wayside, therefore, is the land on either side of the way.

What we might call the roadside.

The term wayside can first be found in the middle English poem, Morte Arthur.

This poem was written in the 1400s by an unknown author.

It tells part of the legend of King Arthur.

It's sometimes called the eliterative Morte Arthur because it uses so much alliteration,

many words that start with the same sound.

At one point in the story Arthur's knights are traveling around France when they find

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