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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Does it bother you when people end sentences with prepositions; or do you take it in stride like the fellow who devised the following witticism?
"This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
—Anonymous. (An earlier version, printed in the Strand Magazine and later reprinted in the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 30, 1942, reads, "... offensive impertinence, up with which I will not put.")
Well, I've got a joke for you!
I just read this today in Quirkology by Richard Wiseman:
Texan: "Where are you from?"
Harvard graduate: "I come from a place where we do not end our sentences with prepositions."
Texan: "Okay—where are you from, Jackass?"
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Didn't get to that part yet. I bought that book and read the first part, but got diverted to other things....