Re: How Long Before Common Usage Becomes the Rule?

Subject: Re: How Long Before Common Usage Becomes the Rule?
From: kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:39:34 -0600

> > Or, as Churchill said, "Never end a sentence with a preposition,
> > unless you want to."
>
> I doubt it. Churchill would have known that "to" is not a
> preposition in that sentence.



Actually, the eminently quotable Churchill said, "Ending a sentence with a
preposition is something up with which I will not put."


-KC

Oh, and I think he said this in a FrameMaker document (groping for the
Tech Writing tie-in...)

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