WHO AND WHOM
Sir,-I wonder why "S.D.W." is surprised at A. R. D. Fairburn quoting a wife as saying "Who do you think I ran into .. .?" because that is exactly what she would say. Can you" imagine a pleasurably-excited wife rushing home and saying, "Into whom do you think I ran... .?" Let us be natural sometimes. How dull a story would be if all the characters spoke correctly. Some would lose their appeal altogether. So would some of our most telling quotations, for example, ‘"Them’s my sentiments." "Those are my sentiments". would be forgotten as soon as read.I enjoyed "Notes on the Traffic Problem" so much that I posted it to someone who, I thought, might have missed it.
S.
DASSLER
( Henderson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 5
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122WHO AND WHOM New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 5
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