ellen@ucla-cs.UUCP (02/23/85)
Or, to expand a previously mentioned expression:
As the Mother ascends the stairs, carrying a tome from Australia, the
child says:
"Why did you bring the book i don't like to be read to out of
from Down Under up for?"
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And now, back to the Freeway, which is already in progress...msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (03/01/85)
> "Why did you bring the book i don't like to be read to out of > from Down Under up for?" Some past editions of the Guinness Book of World Records have included a version of the above, listed as "Most Prepositions at End". Actually they gave one more, as you'll see in a moment. Of course the claim that all these words are prepositions is specious; they CAN be, but aren't being used that way. At any rate, some years ago I wrote to them as follows: What did you say that the sentence ending in the most prepositions is "What did you bring the book I don't like to be read to from out of about Down Under up for?" for? The preceding sentence has one more. They said they'd include it in the next British edition, which I didn't see, but the next American edition dropped the category. (Then it came back but with "claimed to be the most", without the potentially recursive improvement, and then it disappeared again!) Mark Brader