Than

[Jonathan Lighter]

I do. But it is awkward.

St. Anselm was famous for saying (in translation) something like "God is He than Whom nothing can be greater."

JL



Ed Keer <edkeer at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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Does anyone find this sentence grammatical?

1) She's the one than whom I am better.

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.

Ed



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