more on "which" and "that"

Wed May 11 03:51:29 UTC 2005

On May 10, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Larry Horn wrote:

> ...The fear of restrictive whiches was already well ensconced among
> the
> U. of Chicago copy-editors in 1988, FWIW.  I don't know if that means
> it's also in the contemporaneous _Chicago Manual of Style_.

CMS has been a major player in enforcing this "rule" in the u.s.

i mean, if people don't follow the rules, society will come apart at
the seams, right?

arnold