"Which" and "that"

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 08:40 PM 5/11/2005, you wrote:
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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

Or maybe it's an old fogey English-department thing.  (I used to be one too!)