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Pedantic Nonsense Up with Which I Will Not Put! 'Discreet' or 'Discrete'?

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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You Just Can't Pie Pipe a Particle

This is the kind of pedantic nonsense up with which i will not put. It crashes because churchill is brute forcibly pied piping the particle up. We get the same kind of effect with other phrasal verbs that take both a particle and a preposition. You just can't pie pipe a particle. I still laugh at the joke, but instead of an english is a wild kind of laugh. Its mor ven, i see what you did there, konnelagh.

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