31.3.03
EQUAL TIME: Something that Dara will like (unless you've heard it already (but even then, you might still find it funny)). The last truly great British PM (excepting Atlee, because he was sort of a mixed bag) was writing a report for something or other, and sent it off to a subordinate to read it for errors. One of the changes the subordinate made was to move a preposition from the end of a sentence. Noting that the change would destroy the natural flow of the language, the PM in question wrote "this is something up with which I will not put."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment