Wordie: Preposition: Comments

Comment by sionnach, 16 days ago

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:49:19 +0000

A snobbish East Coast English Professor is visiting a colleague at a rural university in the Midwest. The colleague takes him to the local cafe for breakfast and introduces him to a few locals she's gotten to know over the years, including a farmer.

Farmer: Glad to meet you. Where do you come from?

Professor: It is improper to end a sentence with a preposition.

Farmer: I'm very sorry. Where do you come from, a**hole?

Comment by sionnach, 16 days ago

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:48:16 +0000

In prison for his part in the infamous Loeb and Leopold murder case, Richard Loeb was murdered by another prisoner after having allegedly made sexual advances on him.

The Chicago Daily News reported the incident as follows: "Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition."

Comment by chained_bear, about 1 year ago

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:18:50 +0000

Hives give me hives.

Comment by reesetee, about 1 year ago

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:27:55 +0000

This page gives me hives.

Comment by skipvia, about 1 year ago

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:26:08 +0000

What did you bring that book I did not want to be read to out of up for?

Comment by slumry, about 1 year ago

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:22:51 +0000

The Naughty Preposition
--Morris Bishop

I lately lost a preposition:
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair.
And angrily I cried: "Perdition!
Up from out of in under there!

Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor;
And yet I wondered: "What should he come
Up from out of in under for?"

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:41:40 +0000

This rule is something up with which we should not put.

A Tip for Proper English

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:11:22 +0000

A preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.