On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 19:18:28 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>"Whom should provide the certificate?" is not "corrected", it's *wrong*.
>
Yes, wrong, but "hyper-corrected" in the sense of faux erudition, like:

    "... with Shmuel and I ..."
    "octopi"
    ...
>________________________________________
>From: Jesse 1 Robinson
>Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 6:19 PM
>
>This construction does not bother me nearly as much s  the hyper-corrected 
>inverse: Whom should provide the certificate? Ugh.

-- gil

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