Is a business a who or a which?

In my neck of the woods it would be "which".

CJ

Hello CJ

It is my first time I came across the phrase "one's neck of the woods".

Did you use "my neck of the woods" to mean "in my neighborhood"
or in other sense like "personally"?

pa

"in my neck of the woods" = "where I live", an idiom dating back to the time when the U.S. was generally more rural. (It doesn't mean "personally".)

By the way, occasionally I purposely try to use a vocabulary that many learners are not necessarily familiar with as an amusing way to expose them to interesting and new forms of expression.

It appears to be working.

CJ

Is a business a who or a which, as in....."..businesses who are responsible," or is it "businesses which are responsible,"????????????????

Hi Guest,

Obviously, in the strictest sense, a business is not a person. But language is not that strict. We have to consider that there are figurative and notional meanings as well as the strict meanings.

Hello CJ

Thank you as usual. It is nice to get to know idiomatic phrases like this "neck of the woods". Sounds people use it various ways. Neck of the prairies or some place names like that. But I wonder why nobody says "neck of the forests".

paco

"Which" is correct, though, not "who".