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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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who

whatever happened to who.
So often now the the news refers to people that..., the policeman that...,
I would happily join a who revical campaign
  

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I don’t like it, either. I used to consider it an unqualified error before descriptivism clouded my judgment.

  • I don’t like it, either.
  • I used to consider it an unqualified error before descriptivism clouded my judgment.
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I don’t like it, either. I used to consider it an unqualified error before descriptivism clouded my judgment.
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The Corpus of Historical American English has hundreds of examples going back to the early nineteenth century. It's not exactly a recent development.

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