On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: > 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
With respect to the first, it is (possibly mis)attributed to Winston Churchill. The second I've heard but don't recall where from. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
