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Googling "to whom it may concern" returns ~2050000 results, "to who it may concern" returns four time as less results (~479000). You are not right.

• lutusp 13y ago
  > Googling "to whom it may concern" returns ~2050000 results, "to who it may concern" returns four time as less results (~479000). "Four times as less" -> "four times fewer" or "one-fourth" ??
  • einhverfr 13y ago
    "To whom it may concern" is formulaic though, just like "Dear Mr. President." Those are words used as they are, verbatem, in a specific context. They are thus ossified and preserved in a much more conservative state than the rest of the language. It is not unreasonable to suppose that even as our language changes, that phrase will continue to remain intact in root and morphology even if the morphology disappears elsewhere.