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Re: "Up with which I will not put" (was: RE: "and then," or simply "then"?)
Subject:Re: "Up with which I will not put" (was: RE: "and then," or simply "then"?) From:Odile Sullivan-Tarazi <odile -at- mindspring -dot- com> To:Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:48:32 -0700
It's White, all right. The closing line to the essay "English
Usage," from 1937. You might also like his "The Duty of Writers,"
"The Word-Handler's Aim," "An Approach to Style," and "Prefer the
Standard to the Offbeat," all short pieces.
Seems to me a good book (to good reviews, at any rate) on such
nonrules in English came out not too long ago. Darned if I can think
of what it was called though.
Odile
At 8:51 AM -0700 9/25/08, Ned Bedinger wrote:
><snip>
>
>
>Here's a link to an essay attempting to establish the /r/e/a/l/ rules of
>English.
>
>http://www.wilbers.com/part22.htm
>
>I'm passing it along mostly because of the swell quote there, attributed
>to EB White:
>
>"English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment, and
>education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street."
>
>
>I'm like, hooray for EB White, Michael West, and the ones who cut a
>dignified figure when crossing the metaphorical street. That's a hard
>thing to do while shaking a fist at impinging pseudo-rules. I suppose
>the dignity comes in time, given dedication and daily practice :-)
>
>Ned Bedinger
>doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
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