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Old 10-05-2016, 08:38 AM   #152
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post

Language does change with time. I still choose to use "who" as a subject and "whom" as an object, but I've long since stopped getting annoyed about the fact that the overwhelming majority of English speakers no longer do so.
The one that makes me snicker (meanly, since they're trying) is when people use "whom" when "who" is correct, as in, "I wondered whom it was." Or similarly, when "myself" is used when "me" is correct. A combination of pretentiousness and lack of understanding of grammar is at fault.

Don't get me started on apostrophes....
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