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[db-wg] Implementation of POEM object

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Mike Norris mike.norris at heanet.ie
Wed May 11 13:04:58 CEST 2005

>  From the Oxford Dictionary of English, 2nd edition (ISBN 
> 0-19-8613474):
> 
> > The superstition that a preposition should always precede 
> the word it 
> > governs and should not end a sentence [...] is not based on a real 
> > appreciation of the structure of English [...].


... but Nigel is also right - Churchill put it better, in
the form of a risible counter-example.

Mike

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