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To: pcottraux

You'll like this quote by Winston Churchill:

"The alt.english.usage FAQ states that the story originated with an anecdote in Sir Ernest Gowers’ Plain Words (1948).

"Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply:

“This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html


157 posted on 11/11/2005 7:57:28 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

I was an English major in college. I'm supposed to be above that sort of thing, even if Churchill makes fun of it.


160 posted on 11/11/2005 7:59:11 PM PST by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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