Re: Uneasy Relatives


"Ben Zimmer" wrote...
>
> See also this Language Log post, where Mark Liberman suggests that
> "stringwise adjacency to the preposition" often dictates "whom" usage
> nowadays (e.g., former NJ Gov. McGreevey's apology for "not having had
> the courage to be open about whom I was"):
>
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001632.html
>

I am tempted to write: The majority of southern English who I have any
dealings with get round the problem by only using 'who'.

Skraedder


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