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Message: [QUOTE="Sifaka, post: 5289830, member: 8516"] As a quondam copy editor I was taught to ‘dele’, or excise every word that didn't add meaning. Terse text ensued. Back on topic, Bama fan, who used to post here, referred me to Morris Bishop's witty verse about terminal prepositions. “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?” “ [/QUOTE]