Sunday 27 November 2005
Churchill vs. editorial nonsense - Language Log
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For a while I’ve been onthe trail of a saying usually attributed to Winston Churchill:”This is the sort of arrant nonsense up with which I will not put” (orsome variation thereof). Typically the line appears in an anecdote where an officious clerk or editor tries to correct something Churchill has written by “fixing” his trailing prepositions, and Churchill then scribbles the famous comment in the margin of the revised text.
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