Supposedly an editor had clumsily rearranged one of Churchill’s sentences to avoid ending it in a preposition, and the Prime Minister, very proud of his style, scribbled this note in reply: “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”

But apparently clumsy editors continue to thrive at the Ottawa Citizen 

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/debate+within+fairy+tale/5516153/story.html


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07 October 2011