Five seconds ago I stumbled across a misattribution that rocked my world. Countless quotes of my childhood are down the drain, yet it still doesn't make sense.
Sherlock Holmes never said "It's elementary, my dear Watson"???
What??
According to Business Insider, this phrase was never written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Only the most famous line from Sherlock Holmes has been wrongly quoted by scholars, children, and movies alike.
It makes me doubt humanity.
Business Insider offers an explanation for this travesty, stating that "phrases 'my dear Watson' and 'elementary' are both interweaved in a dialogue sequence, yet not combined together."
Apparently, the phrase "It's elementary, my dear Watson" was actually written by a man named Psmith.
How an impostor could have become such a renowned and well-loved phrase is a mystery perhaps only Holmes could have solved.
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