Elsewhere, I referred to "a word I'm unfamiliar with." But I felt a twinge of guilt for not saying, "a word with which i'm unfamiliar."

Does anyone else feel guilty about ending a sentence with a preposition?

Speaking for myself, no.
It's another of those non-rules that prescriptive grammarians like to try to foist on the unsuspecting. English has so many phrasal verbs that are formed with a preposition that it's nigh on impossible to avoid.

I absolutely used to. However, both Zmj and aput have taught me not to on this board. It sounds awkward the right way, really.

This is the kind of prescriptivist nonsense up with which I will not put.

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...It sounds awkward the right way, really.

Not awkward, I would say, but formal and perhaps a bit stiff. I still avoid sentence-ending prepositions unless I have specific reason not to want to be seen as formal or stiff.

But then I'm probably more dinosaur than many. Comes from an overblown sense that there really is a right and a wrong.

Mae West usually ended her sentences with a proposition. Oh, wait - wrong thread...