Re: Hadding some more

Posted by Robert Hill on 08/01/00 from 129.11.153.35 via proxy proxy1.leeds.ac.uk:

In Reply to: Re: Hadding some more posted by Alan Hakim on July 31, 2000 at 23:08:21:

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?"

I forget who wrote this but I saw it in one of Sir Ernest Gowers'
seies of books on Plain Words.