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Originally Posted by cklls
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!
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I'm rather with the author on that one, though I would never say currently accepted
grammar... I would say currently accepted
word usage. I know it's not "proper", but it's become so common that it's correct just by popularity. That said, even though it doesn't bother me in conversation, I don't yet think it's to the point where it's acceptable in written language.