Famouse quote???

[andrea81]

Can anyone give me the direct quote, I think it was Churchill, who was being ironic talking about education and how it was becoming too petty. I think he was trying to be ironic about the rule of not ending a sentence with certain words.

His quote or speech ends with "...up with which I will not put!"

I may be very wrong about who and why it was said though!!!!

[shaneystar2]

It is attributed to Churchill and it's basically about ending a sentence with a preposition but there is no hard evidence that he did actually say it and there are several versions ..
Have a look here
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/arc hives/001715.html

And
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.ht ml

[andrea81]

Thanks for that. Appreciate it! ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

IN the verb put up with

up with are being used adverbially - as adverbs

If you say I hit him with it, you could twist it around
and talk about the hting with which I hit hi.
It doesnt sound odd.

A Nanny said to a child, at bedtime, 'Where is that book you were being read to out of ?
Having read the story, she locked away the book to avoid peeking, and in the mornninng, the child asked:
what did you lock that book I was being read to out of up for?

[Count_Emmup]

New boy Southerner at Harvard, "Howdy, y'all, kin one of ya kindlah tell me where the campus library's at?" (To group of well esconced students) - one of whom pompously responds, "We're Harvard men- we don't answer questions ending in a preposition".

"Oh, allrighty, I get yah. In that case - kin yah tell me where the campus library's at, yah �ssh�le?"

John Humphrys, Radio 2!