[net.nlang] I lately lost a preposition

wa277 (12/29/82)

Here's another sample of multiple sentence-final prepositions, similar
to the "Down Under" sentence submitted a few days ago.  In
that sentence, "Down Under" actually functioned as a proper
noun; in the following, there's less "cheating."

	I lately lost a preposition;
	  It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
	And angrily I cried, "Perdition!
	  Up from out of in under there."

	Correctness is my vade mecum,
	  And straggling phrases I abhor,
	And yet I wondered, "What should he come
	  Up from out of in under for?"
			--Morris Bishop

(Quoted in Sir Ernest Gowers, Plain Words {London, 1948}, p. 74.)