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Originally Posted by HarryT
One thing that slightly saddens me is that the distinction between "who" and "whom" seems to be disappearing in modern English. It's such a simple thing, and I think it adds clarity to use them correctly.
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Had a discussion about this just yesterday with an author for whom I was editing a 70K-word novella. She insisted that "whom" was not used at all in "currently accepted" grammar, citing that "'who' is always correct while 'whom' rarely is, so it should stay." Since she had final control of the document, I'm sure it stayed as she originally wrote it. The sentence was: "To who are you giving that gift?"
Eek!