The Merriam-Webster dictionary folks have just announced that a preposition is now a part of speech you can end a sentence with. Get out!

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Lorem ipsum, my butt. This reflects a linguistic trend that I for one am not fond of.

After all, incorporating “which” or “whom” behind a preposition and slipping the pair into my speech is a verbal habit I’ve invested heavily in. It didn’t come naturally as it’s something I really had to work at.

I now find it arrogant for these self-assigned language experts to issue such decrees. It’s high time their high horses are gotten off of.

Lacking a compelling rationale, it seems that simply serving the populist base sentiment is what they were aiming for. It’s the same boat that using all lowercase letters (as opposed to proper English capitalization) is in. But we are not all e.e. cummings (see what I did there?). Although I admit, throughout this website lowercase is a typographic effect I’ve used a lot of.

But this blanket permission for using trailing prepositions is a trend I’m not for. As the saying goes, it’s something up with which I cannot put. And if we go down this road, it’ll end whence?