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Charles


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Hi Skip,
Here is a "famous" quote attributed to Sir Winston Churchill:
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

Please see:
https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/11/14/churchill-on-prepositions/

Regards,
David

On 2020-01-31 18:19, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
> This construction does not bother me nearly as much as the hyper-corrected 
> inverse: Whom should provide the certificate? Ugh.
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> The allusion was intentional.
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> Someone wrote me offline to criticize the use of who rather than whom. I 
> responded that I doubted Bo Diddley would have had a hit with "Whom Do You 
> Love"? In his case, I believe there may also have been an allusion to 
> "hoo-doo."
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> Charles
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> Trivia: Who do you trust was an American game show primarily from 1957 -> 
> 1962, hosted by Johnny Carson and his announced Ed McMahon - it was on the 
> basis of his exposure in this endeavor that he was hired to replace Jack Paar 
> on The tonight Show
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