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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 538
AUTHOR: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965)
QUOTATION: This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
ATTRIBUTION: WINSTON CHURCHILL, marginal note after receiving a civil servant’s objection to the ending of a sentence with a preposition and the use of a dangling participle in official documents.—Kay Halle, Irrepressible Churchill, p. 166 (1966).

In other versions of this anecdote, the word “English” is often used instead of “pedantry.”
SUBJECTS: English language
 


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