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On whom/who in a Richard Osman novel again

Posted on December 15, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

Perhaps my favourite St Nicholas present this year (ok, I also got the latest Asterix and Obelix comic, as well as the first ever Jane Austen graphic novel and lovely house socks, so hard to choose actually) was Richard Osman’s … Continue reading →

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Whom and Len Deighton (and like)

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

There have already been several posts in this blog about the disappearance of whom, and also about prescriptivism in English literature. Here is one that combines both. Funeral in Berlin, which I came across when looking for the third part … Continue reading →

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Out with whom, in with the split infinitive

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Morana Lukač

One of our blog authors recently tackled the “whom issue”, and it made me wonder if this word is really dying out. Our readers will also remember several posts featuring the split infinitive, the pedants’ pet peeve. I have decided … Continue reading →

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Whom on the way out?

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Maud

  In Chad Harbach’s novel The Art of Fielding (2011), one brief interaction between two characters is the scene of a linguistic inside joke. Pella Affenlight is arguing with her father, the President of Westish College as well as a … Continue reading →

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