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This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill Attribution: Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman, writer. Quoted in The Complete Plain Words, “The Handling of Words,” Ernest Gowers (1954). Said to be a marginal comment by Churchill against a sentence that clumsily avoided ending with a preposition.

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