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Archive for November, 2009

More evidence of the death of “whom”

Posted: Sunday, November 1st, 2009 @ 1:01 pm in Language | 3 Comments »

Even the New York Times, America’s newspaper of record, has lost the ability to get the who/whom distinction right. Here’s a sentence from an article in today’s Sunday Book Review section: Rand, whose books are full of masterful, sexually dominating heroes, quickly fell in love with this confused boy, whom she decided was the “intellectual [...]

 
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