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“You ended that sentence with a preposition…Bastard!”

-Richard Dean Anderson (as Jack O'Niell)

I was going to quote one of my favorite lines by Churchill: This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

But I figured why not check the Google first, just in case. First thing I see is an old post from the inestimable Language Log arguing that the quote isn't Churchill's at all: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001715.h...

Basically, if you're famous, all the best jokes get attributed to you.

Spolsky is one of the best tech essayists alive. If he wants to graduate from college, in 1991, I'd let him.

I believe the parent is referring to the lowercase 'i'.

", in 1991," is a parenthetical phrase.