Whom Do You Love? 0
Alexandra Petri laments the passing of whom.
Who?
No, whom.
This notion that some folks have that, at some dim dark time in the past, everyone used precisely correct grammar, is a favorite fantasy of the Miss Grundies of this world.
Persons don grammar like clothing–they suit it to their environment.
One does not wear white tie and tails to the old fishing hole.
Of course, these days, some people wear jeans to weddings and don’t take off their baseball caps at funerals, so maybe she has a point.
