[etni] FW: hanging prepositions
- From: "Yehudit" <elgavi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Etni Messages'" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:35:13 +0200
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I'm forwarding a correction to my original quote - I stand corrected!
Thanks! Yehudit
-----Original Message-----
From: litajack on ArkinNET [mailto:litajack@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 4:42 PM
To: elgavi@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [etni] hanging prepositions
I assume that since you asked, I can correct.
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."
(Winston Churchill, in Ernest Gowers, Plain Words (1948) "Troubles with
Prepositions")
A lovely quote above the above in the dictionary goes:
"The Prime Minister has nothing to hide from the President of the United
States."
(Winston Churchill on stepping from his bath in the presence of a
startled
President Roosevelt, as recalled by Roosevelt's son in Churchill (BBC
television series presented by Martin Gilbert, 1992) pt 3)
>
> Apropro "hanging " or "dangling" prepositions - it may remind some of
us
> of the quotation (I think related to Churchill - correct me if I'm
> wrong)
> "This is a situation up with which we will not put".
> Yehudit
>
>
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