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The growth of preposition stranding:
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:58 am
by metal56
The growth of preposition stranding:
DECADE 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
PER MIL 6.76 6.90 11.54 11.02 11.18 10.94 10.77 15.06 18.08
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:33 am
by lolwhites
It goes further back than that:
No traveller returns, puzzles the will;
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
It might have died out a bit when it was decided that they were "wrong" (because you can't do it in Latin
) so maybe it's a more of a comeback.
Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:04 pm
by metal56
lolwhites wrote:
It might have died out a bit when it was decided that they were "wrong" (because you can't do it in Latin
) so maybe it's a more of a comeback.
Mebbe.
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:50 pm
by Stephen Jones
I suspect there is less of a feeling now that formal writing has to differ from educated speech.