From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 16:09:55 -0600
Date: 2001-02-04T16:09:55-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Uqkf6.41070$Ch.8936106@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A7C0D13.41AE7BB3@acm.org
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.
"Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> wrote in message
news:3A7C0D13.41AE7BB3@acm.org...
> I thought it was "A ludicrous affectation, up with which..."?
>
> Or maybe it was someone else who said that?
>
> MDC
>
> Nick Roberts wrote:
>
> > "This is the kind of language up with which we will not put!" (Winston
> > Churchill)
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2001-01-22 11:40 ` When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?) Mario Amado Alves
2001-01-22 16:42 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-22 18:24 ` Pascal Obry
2001-01-22 20:27 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-22 22:19 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-01-22 22:58 ` Keith Thompson
2001-01-23 4:00 ` Mark Lundquist
[not found] ` <87vgr6r82h.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
2001-02-02 22:19 ` Nick Roberts
2001-02-03 5:16 ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-03 16:43 ` David Starner
2001-02-03 18:55 ` Another irrelevant thread, churchill quote Robert Dewar
2001-02-03 13:52 ` When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?) Marin David Condic
2001-02-04 22:09 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
2001-02-05 14:49 ` Another silly tangent (was: When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?)) Ted Dennison
2001-01-19 19:01 When will next Ada revision be? (83, 95, ?) Beard, Frank
2001-01-19 22:50 ` Tucker Taft
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2001-01-18 4:31 Julian Morrison
2001-01-18 15:25 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-18 15:31 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-18 20:01 ` Tucker Taft
2001-01-19 4:00 ` Julian Morrison
2001-01-19 4:20 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2001-01-18 23:47 ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-19 19:34 ` Nick Williams
2001-01-19 22:47 ` Tucker Taft
2001-01-20 5:18 ` Brian Rogoff
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