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Re: Ending a sentence with a preposition (#897726)
Subject:Re: Ending a sentence with a preposition (#897726) From:Joanna Sheldon <cjs10 -at- CORNELL -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:54:24 -0400
At 14:03 19/09/96 EDT, you wrote:
>The actual quote is from Churchill and is: "This is the kind of arrant
>pedantry up with which I will not put".
>Apparently it was Churchill's response to an editors comment on his History
>of the English Speaking Peoples regarding his excessive use of split
>infinitives.
Paul -- You'll notice however that he was joking about hanging
prepositions, not split infinitives. Let's keep our sins separate here.
