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RE: How Long Before Common Usage Becomes the Rule?
Subject:RE: How Long Before Common Usage Becomes the Rule? From:"Leslie Johnson" <lesliej -at- microsoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:01:29 -0700
Didn't Churchill also say "It's a truly unimaginative person who can't
find an alternate spelling for any word in the English language." (or
words to that effect.
Leslie
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From: Karen E. Black [mailto:kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:58 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: How Long Before Common Usage Becomes the Rule?
'After receiving a Minute issued by a priggish civil servant, objecting
to
the ending of a sentence with a preposition and the use of a dangling
participle in official documents, Churchill red pencilled in the margin:
"This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put."'
--results of Google search
> > 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.
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