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Re: "To whom"

From:Bryan Parry <bajparry@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 21:15
No. At least not in mine or other people's cases here:
 both seem to be acceptable to us, just sometimes
misuse of either form sounds odd.


 --- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> Who is the greater prescriptivist, the one who > insists > we must use "whom" or the one who insists that we > must > not? > > I use it quite naturally because I was brought up to > use it. Others don't use it, and I let it go. It > doesn't hurt my ears or offend my sensibilities. > Being offended by "whom" is no different than being > offended by the lack of "whom". Such a person is not > offended because of what the other person says, he > is > offended because he has chosen to be offendable. >
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