Re: OT: Who said it?

[David Auerbach auerbach@xxxxxxxx]

"Daddy, what did you bring me that book I like to read out of up for?"

On Sep 4, at 5:49 PM, Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> Harry Binswanger wrote:
> > Puts me in mind of GBS's response to a letter that said, "Here is
> > something out of which I hope you will get a kick."
> > GBS: "That sentence has the kind of foolishness up with
> > which I shall not put."
> First of all, would anyone of GBS's vintage have used the
> expression "get a kick out of something"? The OED supplement
> records the first citation for that phrase in 1928, so it's
> possible, but...
> More important, this tale is usually told of Winston Churchill:
> My Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3d ed., 1979) lists it
> under his name thus, "This is the sort of English up with which I
> will not put" Attrib. comment against clumsy avoidance of a
> preposition at the end of a sentence. E. Gowers, Plain
> Words...
> Of course, in neither example is there really a preposition
> involved. "To get a kick out of" something and "to put up with"
> something are phrasal verbs; the "out of" and "up with" are more
> like separable prefixes in German than real prepositions.
>
> --
> Patricia M. Godfrey
> PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx


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