Another silly tangent (was: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?))

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <Uqkf6.41070$Ch.8936106@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net>,
  "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote:
> My recollection is that he retorted
> "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put!"
> when an editor had blue-penciled a sentence which he had
> ended with a preposition.
> I believe I read it in one of the six volumes of Churchill's
> "The Second World War" back in about 1954.

I've read them all twice within the last 3 years, and I remember no such
statement; in fact its completely new to me. Of course that's the
wonderful thing about having a bad memory. I can reread mystery novels a
year later and they are just as good as the first time I read them. :-)

BTW: Given a choice between reading Shakespere and Churchill, I'll take
Churchill any day of the week. :-)

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