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From: "J.O.Baker" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] OT - Terminal prepositions ( was ...Luxury...)
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 12:51:46 -0800
References: <PNEMLKJFOJOKAAIFODJJKEHGDEAA.chris@sackett.org.uk>


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.
>

There used to be a grassy bank somewhere near the R.R.Station at York, Yorkshire , (of course) and about now would be a yellow
blaze of Yellow daffodils. They seem to propagate themsilves and came up every year when I was there. (WWII) A most beautiful
sight when in bloom. Incidentally my mother's favourite flowers..
Jay

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