http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=561 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=561&cpage=1#comment-186499 Robert Beard Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:48:00 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=561#comment-186499 I have nothing to add to Winston Churchill's comment, which I enhance here: http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/drgw001.html. I have nothing to add to Winston Churchill’s comment, which I enhance here: http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/drgw001.html.

]]> http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=561&cpage=1#comment-186463 Charle Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:19:26 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=561#comment-186463 I'm not an habitual blogger, or commentator, but a sentence in your piece "A Jolt in the Slow Lane" has motivated me to literary action. I refer to "Anyway, the community was hard hit by the news and I’m only getting back into my old groove myself, still a bit unnerved by the horror those headlines were fraught with." Perhaps the rules have changed, but the last time I checked, ending a sentence with a preposition was a 'breach of grammatical etiquette'. Granted, to say "unnerved by the horror with which those headlines were fraught" may sound pretentious (or goofy, depending on your perspective), wouldn't it at least be correct? By the way, this is my first time on alphadictionary.com, but I'm certain it won't be the last. Bravo! I’m not an habitual blogger, or commentator, but a sentence in your piece “A Jolt in the Slow Lane” has motivated me to literary action. I refer to “Anyway, the community was hard hit by the news and I’m only getting back into my old groove myself, still a bit unnerved by the horror those headlines were fraught with.” Perhaps the rules have changed, but the last time I checked, ending a sentence with a preposition was a ‘breach of grammatical etiquette’. Granted, to say “unnerved by the horror with which those headlines were fraught” may sound pretentious (or goofy, depending on your perspective), wouldn’t it at least be correct?
By the way, this is my first time on alphadictionary.com, but I’m certain it won’t be the last. Bravo!

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