Now if I may point out an oddity in Latin word order... It is true that in English it is if anything more important than in Latin to keep a preposition right up against its object (since in Latin the case may, I'm not saying will, clarify matters), and it's true that nonetheless English more often than not goes ahead and dangles the preposition off the far end of the clause, usually without great damage to the sense and usually with a net profit in colloquiality, and it's also true that Latin rarely if ever even contemplates much less consummates the like dangling, yet Latin hath his (taking it as sermo Latinus, not lingua Latina) own funny ways with words. Note for example Lucretius' famed title, De rerum natura ("On the nature of things", but even a nonpedant can tell at a glance that it actually says "On of things the nature"), and then there's the old Christmas chant (now usually sung to Divinum Mysterium), Corde natus ex parentis ("Of the Father's love begotten", but it looks to me more like "Heart born of the Parent's" and the -e on "corde" strongly suggests to me that it's the object of the "ex"...) Of course, by the time Englishmen got around to aping Latin, Latin itself had settled down into imitating Italian in its sentence structure, ...

How's that for pedantia? (I would make more of my pedantry, but I'm always afraid people will think it's a fancy word for child molestation...)

Liland