Eats Roots and Leaves

[suzifrommd]

My favourite birthday card ever:

Two girls on the front. One asks, "Where's your birthday party at?"

The second replies, "Don't end a sentence with a preposition."

You open up the card and the first girl asks, "Where's your birthday party at, bitch?"

Story about a kid who's parents used to get him to go to sleep by reading to him from a boring book about Australia. Finally the kid's had enough. As he hears his mother come up the stairs and sees her carrying the book, he says:

"What did you bring the book I didn't want to be read to from about down under up for?"

Ending a sentence with 7 prepositions.

[Constance]

Story about a kid who's parents used to get him to go to sleep by reading to him from a boring book about Australia. Finally the kid's had enough. As he hears his mother come up the stairs and sees her carrying the book, he says:

"What did you bring the book I didn't want to be read to from about down under up for?"

Ending a sentence with 7 prepositions.

Okay, that deserves some kind of award.

[Arch]

I am afraid I could never be in 'agreeance' with you.  When I hear that one I feel the need for a revolver.

That's right up there with "betterance."

[eli77]

I find this trend very disturbing. Where are the spelling and grammar police?

Jennifer

Oh, hi! Currently our resources are a little stretched so we have been forced to limit our actions to officially printed material like books and whatnot. Some websites privately employ a small security detail to regulate articles, but overall, as far as the internet goes, you're on your own. Sorry, we try our best.

-- Sarah, editor (aka "spelling and grammar police")

[Jamie D]

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." Schoolteacher Edna Krabappel comments that she never heard the word embiggens until she moved to Springfield. Miss Hoover, another teacher, replies, "I don't know why; it's a perfectly cromulent word."

from "Lisa the Iconoclast" episode of the Simpsons

[Padma]

Embiggen - it's a Pennsylvania thing, apparently .

[Felix]

The 7 Prepositions Award suggestion reminds me of the Trent Reznor Prize for Tricky Embedding - http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002621.html