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From: Phil & Heather <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT - Terminal prepositions ( was ...Luxury...)
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 10:06:11 +0000
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In-Reply-To: <PNEMLKJFOJOKAAIFODJJKEHGDEAA.chris@sackett.org.uk>


Hi Chris,

Are they not called dangling prepositions?

Winston Churchill was an advocate of those!

Some can be rewritten so that Kipling (he of exceedingly good cake fame?!)
could be restated as:

Too horrible with which to be trifled.

It does not exactly trip off the tongue, though!

Mind you the thought of trifle is most engaging. Wonder if our North
American friends know what trifle is? <grin>

Whose is this buster, any way? <grin>

The only one I know was my Physics master 40 years' ago and Buster Mottram
the tennis player.

If our American friends want a guide for the London repositories I could be
prevailed on to help. The daffodills here are starting to emerge, here in
an outer borough of Greater London (Bromley) , we do not benefit from the
higher temperatures of Inner London. I can also assist as a guide for
Essex, Kent, Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Devon,
Cornwall. Have car will travel!

Best wishes,

Phil
[Waiting patiently for 5.05 - hopefully by Easter]

At 09:43 AM 3/1/2003 +0000, Chris Sackett wrote:

> >Hey Darrell
> > >
> > >How about:
> > >
> > >You folks are making me homesick for a place I have never been
> > within 3,000
> > >miles (5,000 kilometers) of, buster.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Hi, Myrnice:
> >
> > A little brusque for my taste, but works, yes [big grin].
> >
> > Darrell
>
>Darrell, Myrnice,
>
>When I get in a muddle with English usage I turn to the work of fellow
>Guernseyman the estimable H W Fowler who, in his Dictionary of Modern
>English Usage, gives many examples from literature of terminal prepositions,
>some of which seem pertinent to our discussion. Whether these are improved
>by substitution in the sentence "<[M], buster.>" I leave to the reader to
>decide -
>
>(Swift) The present argument is the most abstracted that ever I engaged in,
>buster.
>(Jonson) Prepositions follow sometimes the nouns they are coupled with,
>buster.
>(Kipling) Too horrible to be trifled with, buster.
>and . . .
>(Hazlitt) It does for something to talk about, buster.
>
>Sackett of Guernsey
>It's raining heavily this morning. Daffodils still golden.
>
>
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