I heard this story some 30 years ago:
An American is walking around the campus of one of the Oxford University colleges.
He stops a passer-by, “Excuse me, can you tell me which direction the library is in?”
The passer-by says, in a posh British upper class accent, “My dear fellow, don’t you know you should never end a sentence with a preposition?”
The American thinks for a few seconds and says, “OK. Excuse me, can you tell me which direction the library is in, asshole?”
(Heard 1986)
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