"and which" = of which; and

[Herb Stahlke]

Unless this is simply a production error, it looks like a variant of
the usage I posted on earlier this summer:

We were going to have a picnic Saturday, which it rained.

The use with "and" is interesting, and I've heard it used this way
before, but it reinforces the sense that "which" gets used in some
kinds of coordinate clauses.

Herb

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Jonathan
Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      "and which" = of which; and
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Reporting the death of Robert Novak, a highly educated CNN journalist just
> said (in voiceover, so he was reading from a highly edited script) :
>
> "His nickname, 'The Prince of Darkness,' was coined not by his enemies but
> by his friends, and which there were many."
> JL
> --
> "There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
> Platypus"
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org