Timeline for Why is it “Who do you help?,” not “Whom do you help?”?
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| Sep 30, 2022 at 19:02 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 19, 2021 at 20:20 | history | suggested | niamulbengali | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2018 at 17:05 | comment | added | L. Scott Johnson | @KevinFegan My US experience is quite different. I use "whom" quite a bit (although I often use "who" in its place by mistake as well), and have heard it used (and heard it replaced by "who") all my life (and I, too, have passed the halfway mark). | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 17:02 | comment | added | Kevin Fegan | @alephzero - ""Whom" seems to linger on more in US English" From a personal point of view, with respect to "Whom", I'd have to disagree. I'm in the US (Chicago area), and having reached well past half way to my "expiration date", I have never used "whom" in a (written or spoken) sentence (ooops, well, up until now). And I've never heard it used in a sentence spoken by others, except when debating the "who/whom" issue. "gotten" is another matter, what's wrong with "gotten"? | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 16:40 | comment | added | S Conroy | @user2684291. It is very definitely used in legal texts where everything should be more than crystal clear, so I'm not that suprised to hear of a British barrister using it in his every day speech too. | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 16:34 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @alephzero I still say "gotten", and sometimes "whom", and although I'm sometimes a pedant I don't feel that I am deliberately being one on those occasions. I'm also note hundreds of years old yet (working on it!) | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | L. Scott Johnson | @Mari-LouA - Thanks. I've edited my answer to include references. | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 14:08 | history | edited | L. Scott Johnson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 27, 2018 at 11:08 | comment | added | user71740 | @alephzero I ~regularly talk to a British barrister who still uses whom. So you're wrong. (When I asked him about it, he said he's not being pedantic at all; in fact he makes spelling mistakes/typos all the time, for instance, and his speech isn't very formal either.) | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 10:06 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Please consider adding references, citations, etc. This will make your answer infinitely more helpful and better-supported. | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 9:15 | comment | added | alephzero | Indeed "could" not "should". The only people speaking British English who would use "whom" in that sentence are pedants. "Whom" seems to linger on more in US English - along with other things that have been obsolete in BrE for hundreds of years, like "gotten". | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 7:46 | comment | added | Omar and Lorraine | By "should", you probably mean "could". | |
| Jul 27, 2018 at 1:43 | history | answered | L. Scott Johnson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |