"Which" and "that"

[Duane Campbell]

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> I go back to the early '40's, when the only kind of rule known was the
> prescriptive rule

I go back that far, too, though I couldn't talk then Or chew. I don't
specifically recall being taught the that/which rule, but as a writer I know
I am sensitive to it. It doesn't vex me quite as much as the that/who rule,
though,  that .... which really sends me up.  On the other hand, I have a
good friend (70-something, Princeton, Harvard Law) who has devoted his
retirement to tracking down and punishing those who "misuse" which and that.
He doesn't care so much about that and who. Maybe it's a Harvard/Yale thing.

D