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Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> On 08/14/2010 10:16 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>> Only after you wrote it I became aware that this is a grammar issue. "may I
>> end a sentence with a preposition" gives 2,580,000 results in Google.
>> People are running polls. Wow!
>
> As someone once said on the subject, "That is something up with which
> I will not put."
>
> Ending a sentence with a preposition, along with split infinitives and
> double negatives, are things that were quite common and acceptable
> before the 19th century. In the 19th C logicians came up with these
> rules that were contrary to common usage, and they were adopted by
> like-thinkers, but the real rule is that they are perfectly natural
> usage.

Quite. But Foo_Of is *not* natural!