Is anyone old enough to remember that line, supposed to be a witty riposte to the grammar pedant who stated that you should never end a sentence with a preposition? That's how I remember what a preposition is:

"a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in “the man on the platform,” “she arrived after dinner,” “what did you do it for?”"

And yes, the online Dictionary confirmed my memory and yes, it was Winston Churchil, as I had suspected, who objected to the rule (originally derived from Latin grammar), by saying, "This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."

I've already complained about what I perceive to be incorrect prepositions, like bored of, instead of with. Here are a few more. Tell me what you think:

"oblivious of", not to

"immune to", not from

"wean off", not from

and "wean on" not to

"annoyed with" a person

"annoyed at" being stung/bitten by a mosquito?

Do mosquitoes sting or bite?

For those of you who read me regularly, you might want to know what happened to my hot pot. I forgot the essential element: heat. The Chinese or Mongolian hot pot needs real, consistent heat in order to cook the meat or whatever in a broth at table. So the container used for cooking the raw ingredients has to maintain a high heat; that requires an electrical source of heat. Nope. I didn't have that. I checked Epicurious to figure out a way to present the product I had purchased as a viable, i.e.. edible, dinner for my friend. Does everyone use Epicurious as I do? I usually read several different versions of uses of the item I want to incorporate and then I improvise from that. Since I couldn't cook the meat at table, I prepared a pot of Udon noodles with thinly sliced, blanched carrots, snow peas and spinach ready in some of the seasoned broth in which I cooked the raw ingredients. and t them on to of the Udon pot. Well, they were good ingredients and I did a lot of prep, and it was "good" sort of. My friend said she liked it and I did too but it wasn't as good as it should have been. I think the fault was with the basic ingredients: : the thawed meat that went into the pot was too thin and not fresh enough.Now I have leftovers to cope with.

Story of my life.