Grammar peeves

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"jmcquown" wrote in message
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I deffinitely agree with that.

One thing that bothers a lot of people is ending sentences with a
preposition. There are times when it sounds awkward not to do so. I
was
very pleased to hear the linguist, Richard Lederer, say that in those
cases,
it is correct to do so.

Okay, you just reminded me of a joke. A woman from the Southern US and a
woman from the Northern US were waiting for a flight in an airport. The
Southern woman asked the Northern woman, "Where are you from?" The
Northern woman sniffed and said, "I'm FROM where they don't end a
sentence with a preposition." The Southern woman thought about it then
said, "Okay. Where are you from, bitch?"

Jill

That made me smile. Although I was brought up to use correct English, I
wouldn't take it that far!

I'm particularly fond of the response Churchill is supposed to have given
when someone chastised him for ending a sentence with a preposition: "That
is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put."

Joy



I've also let it slip now as no teacher is
around to tell me off. The boys used to get their knuckles rapped with a
board ruler, the girls were merely humiliated in front of the others.
It wouldn't be allowed now.
Looking back, we did have some suspect teachers. One of the maths teachers
used to pick boys up from their desk by their ears for a ritual humilation
if they didn't understand how to work out their sums. He was the one who
asked me in front of the class when I was 11 "are you illegitimate?"
I didn't know what the word meant, so I went home and told my mother. She
was more than furious and went to the school to see the headmaster.

Tweed