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Old May 2nd 08, 03:38 PM posted to rec.games.chess.politics,rec.games.chess.misc
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Default The Match That Wasn't

On May 2, 9:37*am, " wrote:

Dr. Dowd's once forged my name on a university website. His criticism
is reminiscent of a cable that Winston Churchill once sent ending a
sentence with "of." When a subordinate reminded him that it was wrong
to end a sentence with a preposition, Churchill replied: "Do you see
the kind of idiocy up which I have to put.”


The best example of I've ever seen of ending a sentence with a
preposition, in this case five of them, yet being perfectly
comprehensible, involved a little boy whose father brought a book the
boy didn't like for his bedtime story. The boy said "Daddy, what did
you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?"
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