Comments on: Around the web http://alexking.org/blog/2004/03/07/around-the-web Alex King, Denver Web Developer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:45:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Geof http://alexking.org/blog/2004/03/07/around-the-web#comment-1267 Geof Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:15:40 +0000 http://www.alexking.org/blog/2004/03/07/around-the-web/#comment-1267 :chuckle: Whom really is dying a death, and it's quite sad. It's one of those words that you rarely hear used anymore, so it doesn't even hit your grammar radar very often to guilt you into using it. I don't catch mis-use of "who" as an object very often in speech, but I tend to catch it pretty regularly when I read it, and it drives me nuts. Also, while I understand that "Whom would you liked to speak with?" is correct English, I prefer the sound of "With whom would you like to speak?" I think pre-positioning the preposition turns the ear to thinking that a question is coming before the voice of the question is pitched higher at the end. [I should have majored in English.] :chuckle: Whom really is dying a death, and it’s quite sad. It’s one of those words that you rarely hear used anymore, so it doesn’t even hit your grammar radar very often to guilt you into using it. I don’t catch mis-use of “who” as an object very often in speech, but I tend to catch it pretty regularly when I read it, and it drives me nuts.

Also, while I understand that “Whom would you liked to speak with?” is correct English, I prefer the sound of “With whom would you like to speak?” I think pre-positioning the preposition turns the ear to thinking that a question is coming before the voice of the question is pitched higher at the end.

[I should have majored in English.]

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