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William Safire said it best:

"The best rule for dealing with who vs. whom is this: Whenever whom is required, recast the sentence. This keeps a huge section of the hard disk of your mind available for baseball averages."

Put this in the "most people don't care" bin along with the subjunctive mood, which I see intelligent people failing to use more often than not.



I wish I were in a subjunctive mood.


See also less vs. fewer.




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