Just came across this…

I like it!

Love this one.

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Love it Witzend

Wonderful! Thanks for making me smile.?

It's not serious, though. Ending a sentence with a preposition isn't a crime against the English language. It was just a 'rule' invented by claassicists because Latin doesn't contain separate prepositions.

MaizieD I'm shocked!

MaizieD

It's not serious, though. Ending a sentence with a preposition isn't a crime against the English language. It was just a 'rule' invented by claassicists because Latin doesn't contain separate prepositions.

I thought that was the ‘splitting an infinitive’ rule as decided on by the old grammarians. Wasn’t aware it applied to prepositions, too.

Speaking of which, I always liked this from Churchill:
‘This is the sort of thing up with which I will not put.’ ?

The Churchill quote is great - my favourite is from the musical Guys & Dolls, where Miss Adelaide proclaims "Take back your mink to from whence it came".

Nick Ferarri uses that a lot - I didn’t know that it was Churchill.

Esspee I love Mr Pedantic too, very cute.
I’d like to see more alternative Mr Men

"Too" wasn't a preposition last time I looked.

This thread is so funny. I know a Mr Pedantic.

MaizieD

It's not serious, though. Ending a sentence with a preposition isn't a crime against the English language. It was just a 'rule' invented by claassicists because Latin doesn't contain separate prepositions.

My English teacher, may she rest in peace!, told us when we were 13 or so, that Winston Churchill shared this point of view and on one occasion wrote in the margin of some convoluted piece of Civil Service English;

"this is the kind of language, up with which I will not put!"

I doubt it made any effect on the Civil Service, though.

Brilliant!