"at" at the end of a where phrase

[Dennis R. Preston]

>Does it say "She Made Us Ashamed of Who We Were" on Ms. Smith's headstone?

dInIs



>Too bad if it IS taking off!  My 5th grade teacher, Miss Smith, for whom I
>am now eternally grateful, explained that the correct answer to "Where are
>you at?" or "Where are you going to?" was "between the a and the t, or the
>t and the o," which ever applied.  It was a great phrase to use among
>ourselves, but I have grown increasingly careful about using it now . . .
>when even distinguished folk make the errors.
>
>Miss Smith had two goals in life -- to make her Texas students sound less
>like they came from Texas (no grammatical errors like those above, no
>pitcher frames, no liberries where we went to for the books, and never
>Febuerry or Massatusetts.)  Don't know where she was from, but she was at
>least adamant about these.  Her second goal was to produce a generation or
>two of writers, and here I think that she succeeded!
>
>Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>