15 May
2008
15 May
'08
5:06 a.m.
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 20:59 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote: . . .
Interesting to know what jokes are told about Germans. 8-] So, do English professors save their prepositions for the end of a lecture? This seems peculiarly apropos:
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. Still, I wonder, what should he come Up from out of in under for? - Morris Bishop -- Bill Wood