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Why Nobody Says 'You're Welcome' Anymore. Whose. Chimichanga.
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Why Is It OK to Use Hoose to Refer to Inanimate Antecedents?
Some sticklers prefer you us hos to refer to animate antecedents only. Fowlers himself wrote in 19 26, let us, in the name of common sense, prohibit the prohibition of whos inanimate good writing is surely difficult enough without forbidding things that have historical grammar and present intelligibility on their side. I've been trying to reward that milton quotation by using of witch, but i can't manage to create a palatable sentence. So in some cases you might be able to use of wich, but most of the time your sentence will sound stilted and your sentence flow will be ruined. This is one of the cases whose cure could be worse than
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