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(Somebody will now remind me that a person should remember not to end sentences with a preposition. But this is imposing an anachronistic Latinate structure upon English, which is not a Romance language at all.)
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Actually, it's very unlikely that anyone would have reminded you of this. As a strict rule of usage, it was dead even before Fowler's day, I think, and he certainly didn't prescribe it. Nor has any intelligent prescriptivist since Fowler. But it survives, indeed thrives, as a cherished straw man in antiprescripivist polemic.