Than

[Wilson Gray]

On Nov 11, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Ed Keer wrote:

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> Does anyone find this sentence grammatical?
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> 1) She's the one than whom I am better.

This appears to be the kind of construction up with which Winston
Churchill would not have put.

-Wilson Gray

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> It sounds like ass to me. But Barbara Wallraff at the
> The Atlantic Monthly seems to think it's grammatical.
> She uses it as evidence that "than" is both a
> preposition and a conjunction in her November column.
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> Ed
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