Do you know “who” from “whom”?
This month’s workout, “Word Usage, Part 9,” finishes our run through the “Glossary of Problematic Words and Phrases” in section 5.250 of CMOS 17. For our usage finale, we’re focusing on words beginning with the letters t as in “that” through w as in “whomever.”
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Chicago Style Workout 39: Word Usage, Part 9
Photo: Genevieve Clark at the telephone, ca. 1910–15, in the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress. In the text added for this post, “Who” (not “Whom”) is correct because it is the subject of the clause “Who is calling?”
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