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Re: preposition

From:Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>
Date:Sunday, March 18, 2001, 19:27
At 10:11 pm -0500 17/3/01, Nik Taylor wrote:
>David Peterson wrote: >> I say all of these sentences with the preposition first, without exception. > >Really? Then you're the first person I know who does so!
Yes, I only ever in my 62 years met one person who spoke like that - an English teacher from Scotland. This was way back in the 1960s. She would answer a knock on the staff-room door with "To whom [sic] do you wish to speak?" The question was almost invariably met with a look of incomprehension by the pupil & she would have to 'translate' to "Who do you want to speak to?" ----------------------------------------------------------------- At 3:38 am -0500 18/3/01, David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 3/17/01 7:13:23 PM, fortytwo@GDN.NET writes: >
[snip]
>Really? Then you're the first person I know who does so! Tell me, do >you say "for whom" or "for who"? >> > >"From whom", definitely.
No kidding! Haven't heard said for the past 40 years in this neck of the wood.
>However, I only say "whom" when it's preceeded by a >preposition, or used accusatively.
Er - (slightly puzzled) - When else would it even be written, let alone pronounced? Ray. ========================================= A mind which thinks at its own expense will always interfere with language. [J.G. Hamann 1760] =========================================

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