On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 2:46:01 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2016-09-28 12:17 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > On 9/27/2016 6:01 PM, graham wrote:
> >> On 9/27/2016 1:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps he was. A sad reality is that just about every grammar police
> >>> post I have seen online has contained grammatical errors that were just
> >>> as bad as the one about which they were complaining.
> >>
> >> :-) I'll bet you typed the the last part of that sentence very
> >> carefully, to avoid ending it with a preposition:-)
> >
> > LOL Oldie but goodie joke:
> >
> > A rather snooty woman was sitting next to another woman in an airport.
> > The second woman asked the first, "Where are you from?" The snooty
> > woman replied, "I'm FROM a place where we don't end a sentence with a
> > preposition." The second woman thought for a moment, then said, "Okay,
> > where are you from, bitch?"
>
>
> I was trying to make a point about a common error and being careful not
> to fall the same trap into.

If ending a sentence with a preposition was good enough for Winston Churchill,
it's good enough for me. I generally try to avoid it, but I won't tie myself
into knots over it.

Cindy Hamilton