Re: ::BuffyWantsWillow:: OTs—a variety

[JDMeans@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 3/10/02 10:32:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
danspector@xxxxxxxxx writes:


> Whilst normally I'd quibble 
> About ending with a participle
> Here I thought a dribble
> Of vernacular'd be permissible
> 
> Or, as Churchill said about the enforcement of that grammatical rule:
> "This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
> 
> 

Actually, I read in US News and World Report last year that the editors of 
the Oxford English Dictionary, often called 'The Last Word on Words', 
officially announced that ending a sentence with a preposition is not 
grammatically incorrect. 

Or was that the split infinitive?

Kirayoshi
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