The American Editors are Idiots! (spinoff on Hermione in US/UK)

Haggridd jkusalavagemd at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 10 02:59:31 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 16218

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., tanwo at h... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Beginning a sentence with "and" may have passed into common usage, 
> but 
> > ending a sentence with a preposition can still get you talked 
about 
> > behind your back. *grin*
> > 
> > Haggridd
> 
> For me Winston Churchill summed this up when he said -
> 
> This is an absurd pedantry, up with which I will not put.
> 
> W   :))

Churchill always was a bit of a snob.  Why should he think that the 
peasantry is absurd?  Aren't there any serious-minded peasants? 

H.  :)





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