murky days on the WHO/WHOM front

[Drew Danielson]

It sounds more like hypercorrection to me.  It would be interesting to
be able to track the WHOM-misuser's WHO/WHOM usage across time and
context....


"Peter A. McGraw" wrote:
>
> "Whom" in this context (subject of a subordinate clause which itself is the
> object of a preposition or the main-clause verb) is suddenly running
> rampant.  I hear it so often (especially from academics and journalists, it
> seems) that I wonder if a syntactic reanalysis of some sort is actually
> taking root.
>
> Peter Mc.
>
> --On Thursday, March 28, 2002 7:35 AM -0500 "Dennis R. Preston"
> <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:
>
> >> Ther are many traps for WHOMers (one of the most important
> >> sociolinguistic subgroups in US society) out there; this one
> >> obviosuly fell prey to the rule "use 'whom' after a preposition."
> >> Didn't this guy's mom tell him to look left AND right before
> >> attaching an -m?
> >
> > dInIs
> >
> >
> >
> >> from a letter today (3/27/02) to the New York Times, from
> >> Marc F. Bernstein, Chief Academic Officer, Kaplan K12
> >> Learning Services, New York, about funding for New York City
> >> schools:
> >>
> >>  Regardless of whom should be blamed, it's the students who
> >>  will suffer.
> >>
> >> i wonder if he'd have committed himself to something like
> >>  Regardless of whom is blamed,...
> >>
> >> arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
> >
> > --
> > Dennis R. Preston
> > Department of Linguistics and Languages
> > Michigan State University
> > East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
> > preston at pilot.msu.edu
> > Office: (517)353-0740
> > Fax: (517)432-2736
>
> ****************************************************************************
>                                Peter A. McGraw
>                    Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
>                             pmcgraw at linfield.edu

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