Re: purity

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> **  Sir Winston Churchill is said to have
> responded to the excessively nit-picky editing of
> one of his speeches by an over-enthusiastic
> grammarian with the comment, "This is the sort
> of arrogant pedantry up with which I shall not
> put."
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Ah yes. Responding to a complaint about ending a sentence with a preposition, he was.
According to my Darling (ex) wife, a rule from Latin Grammer that actually has no basis in English, historically. (She has a Masters degree is this stuff.)
I'm glad somebody got the Ivory reference anyway! Ever see the (hew Yoorker?) cartoon from the 1920's "The Day a Cake of Ivory Sank"?
hank, who still uses ivory soap instead of something more hi-tech.