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Most all of us have used the abbreviation "P.S." before. And I know a lot of people who use "P.S.S." if they want to add an additional thought to their P.S. P.S. actually stands for postscript . So an additional thought after a postscript makes it a post-postscript , or P.P.S. (My seventh-grade English teacher taught me this.) Here's the proof . Use it in your next Valentine or love letter. Wow someone.

Un-learning what they taught you in grade school regarding starting a sentence with a conjunction and ending one with a preposition... This is taken directly from my editing handbook, The Chicago Manual of Style --it's "The" authority on print media (with over 950 pages). 5.191 (p. 193) There is a widespread belief—one with no historical or grammatical foundation—that it is an error to begin a sentence with a conjunction such as and, but, or so . In fact, a substantial percentage (often as many as 10 percent) of the sentences in first-rate writing begin with conjunctions. It has been so for centuries, and even the most conservative grammarians have followed this practice. Charles Allen Lloyd's 1938 words fairly sum up the situation as it stands even today: "Next to the groundless notion that it is incorrect to end an English sentence with a preposition, perhaps the most wide-spread of the many false beliefs about the use of of our language is the equally groundl...