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"Who" is acceptable at all times. I was unaware. Is this just laziness slipping into common usage or has it always been the case?
by damoncali 14y ago
"Who" is acceptable at all times.
I was unaware. Is this just laziness slipping into common usage or has it always been the case?
- petercooper 14y agoIt may have been laziness once but if anything slipped, it slipped a long time ago. I'd argue that a sentence like "Whom are you talking to?" would sound pompous and old-fashioned to most Anglophones (and not solely because it ends with a preposition).