Re: OT: Who said it?

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:
> More important, this tale is usually told of Winston Churchill:
You know, maybe I was told it was Winnie but got my Brits mixed. I was told
it in 1960.
>  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.
Interesting. Is that illustrated by the fact that you can substitute
"abide" (no preposition) for "put up with"? On the other hand, "get a kick
out of" seems to call for a preposition, as long as you keep the passive
voice: "get enjoyment from" or "get enjoyment from."

Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx