Hypercorrection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apocryphally, Winston Churchill is said to have replied to a hypercorrective memo with the phrase “This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put” or a similar construction.[3] This is an example of hypercorrection used as parody: Churchill went beyond creating a grammatically correct sentence to mock the elaborate refusal to end a clause in a preposition (or insistence on placing the preposition before the relative pronoun); he treated the adverbial particles up and with as prepositions. They are actually part of the phrasal verb put up with and their placement before put is extremely unusual.
(This is why linguists are awesome at parties.)
