FISCHER'S SELFMATE

Several readers said they understood "selfmate" to mean only that
Fischer mated himself by handing the title to Karpov without a
fight..


On May 2, 1:05*pm, Mike Murray wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2008 12:43:39 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
wrote:





On May 2, 8:39*am, David Richerby
wrote:
wrote:
" 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.=94

As I recall, the exact quote was *"Do you see the kind of idiocy up
*_with_* which I have to put.=94

Clearly the `with' is necessary. *But it's not, in fact, clear that
Churchill ever said or wrote anything of the sort.

*http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html

The version I heard was "This is the sort of nonsense up with which I
shall not put."

John Savard

A grammar text? *Why do you bring that book I don't want to be
preached to out of up for ?- Hide quoted text -

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