I always try to memorize this phrase to zap some over zealous grammar police, but to no avail. Hopefully I will be able to memorize it for good this time.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, here is the myth (which is probably not true). One of Winston Churchill's aid corrected his speech, saying that he should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Churchill wrote back a memo, saying, "this is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put."
Isn't it one of the best ripostes ever? take the clause 'which I will not put up with,' and move the two prepositions (though up is not necessarily a preposition) like a traditional grammarian would suggest, and you get the whacked out sentence: "up with which I will not put!"
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