On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
"Rhodri James"<rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> writes:
Language abuse: it's not just Python. A donation of just $5 will keep
a programmer in prepositions for a month. $50 will supply enough
articles to keep a small company understandable for over a year. With
your generous help, we can beat this scourge!
I lately lost a preposition
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, “Perdition!
Up from out of in under there.”
Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, “What should he come
Up from out of in under for?”
—Morris Bishop, in the _New Yorker_, 1947-09-27
<URL:http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/gowerse/complete/chap905.htm>
Ending a sentence with a preposition is one aberration up with which I
will not put.
With is a lousy word to start or end a sentence with.
origins unknown
DaveA
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