Other use of language which has gotten my attention today. An advertisement for a furniture store today said, and no I'm not misquoting, "just 20 miles from almost anywhere". And every company I call which puts me on hold has a recorded message stating "Your call will be answered in the order it was received in." Is it now considered appropriate usage to end sentences with prepositions? You who teach comp & rhetoric -- if a student hands a paper in with a sentence like the above, do you mark it as an error? Julie Krueger ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html