Terminal prepositions
For the August 1968 issue of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics,
Darryl Francis devised one sentence that ends with nine prepositions.
If the Yardbirds' 1966 single "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" were
exported to Australia and then retrieved by a traveler, the question
might be asked:
"What did he bring 'Over, Under, Sideways, Down' up from Down Under for?"
Inspired, Ralph Beaman pointed out that if this issue of the journal
were now brought to a boy who slept on the upper floor of a lighthouse,
he might ask:
"What did you bring me the magazine I didn't want to be read to out
of about '"Over Under, Sideways, Down" up from Down Under' up around
for?"
There's more at the
Futility Closet entry.
I lately lost a preposition:
ReplyDeleteIt hid, I thought, beneath my chair.
And angrily I cried: "Perdition!
Come up from out of in under there!"