Re: How Long Before Common Usage Becomes the Rule?

[Amram Hakohen <amramh -at- dnrc -dot- bell-labs -dot- com>]

I believe that what he actually said is along these lines:
"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with 
which I will not put."

"Mark L. Levinson" wrote:
> 
> > 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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