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Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
"Mike" wrote:
Never end a sentence with a preposition.

Yes, a preposition is a bad word to finish a sentence with.

(Winston Churchill)

Close, but no cigar.

Churchill apparently did say something about the concept, and
it ended with "up with which I will not put.", but who he said it
to, how he said it, and exactly the text preceeding that phrase
isn't so positive. The two best sounding versions a

"This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put."
Oxford Companion to the English Language according to the
FAQ for alt.english.usage

and

"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."
Sir Ernest Gowers, Plain Words, 1948; and
American Heritage Book of English Usage

Below is the URL that information was gleaned from.

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


That should be: "from which that info. was gleaned"!!! And "shall" might
have been part of the original.

Please trim extraneous, esp. kook, groups, Floyd.

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john mcwilliams