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ME Michaud michaudme at gmail.com
Sun Mar 13 16:56:48 UTC 2016


No, that's not what I remember.

And I've worked with people who err in the opposite direction, replacing
"who" with "whom" because they think it sounds classy or smart.

Yesterday a young mother was carrying her toddler into the library.
"Library," she said. "Library."
"Wye-bewwy," he replied.
-M

On Sunday, March 13, 2016, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
> Maybe an African American teller?
>
> Anyway, the shorthand, "social" for Social Security in the USA
> is firmly entrenched.
>
> I am bothered more by obvious grammatical/spelling mistakes such
> as "Febuary" for February, the use of adjectives as adverbs, and
> the complete USA atrophy of "whom" in the direction of "who."
>
>


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