Entertaining. I want to watch more of these when I have more time.

English Enjoyed is another fun one! For some reason, I can’t post one of his videos. Here is the link

https://youtube.com/shorts/HUCD5v_H75I?si=hpoMMDMWsr8l6Rlb

We are enjoying old episodes of What’s My Line on youtube. Host John Daly was a master of formal English, and Steve Allen’s imitation of him was spot on.

That anecdote is attributed to various people, most famously Churchill, but not in the Commons, and refers to being criticized for putting a preposition at the end of a sentence. The example shows that that 'rule' is ridiculous.

I remember a column I read years ago about that preposition rule. The author commented that his young son completely flouted the rule one night at bedtime when he said ”What did you bring that book I didn’t want to be read to out of up here for?” So funny!

Sure floral, such tales get changed and changed again as they pass through time and various hands. Two others, similar in one case and different in the ohter, with such unlikely but commonly spoken attribution. Neither of which I will swear as to their accuracy from when I heard them.

Mr Churchill, why do you insist on speaking with such pomposity? You should know that ending a sentence with a preposition is improper grammar.

Madam, I have no need for your English instruction. Your bravado and insolence are rude and I believe are best to ignore and should not be put up with.

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And - one that to my sensibilities is rude and a way of speaking I would never use or tolerate , but it's an alleged quote from a brash person of a different era.

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Mr Churchill, your comments are plain foolishness. You can't even stand up straight. I believe you are drunk..

Yes, perhaps unfortunately for this moment, I am drunk. And you, madam, are ugly.

In the morning, I will wake up sober. But you will still be ugly.

Either may be misquoted, misattributed, and maybe even fictional. Interesting all the same.

That was cute, Annie, thanks for sharing it - Victorian for the win 😀

Slightly off topic (and possibly apocryphal), a woman at a dinner party once approached famously "Silent Cal," Calvin Coolidge and said to him, "Mr. President, I have made a bet that I can get you to say more than two words." His reply was, "You lose."

Enjoyed that, Annie. My experience working with the Brits was that they could surely over-complicate things sometimes. Very smart people but OMG the over-thinking and over-the-top analysis paralysis and spreadsheets that didn’t tell you anything you really needed to know.

Here's a fun one: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1209152267924397