Iain  Lennon

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In fact, the most famous example of hyperbaton in English comes from a civil servant twisting a sentence round to get the preposition away from the end. Nobody actually knows what the sentence was. All that history records is that Winston Churchill underlined it and wrote in the margin: ‘This is the kind of English up with which I will not put.’
The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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