Posts Tagged ‘subbing’
Of who, whom and Michael Rosen
Write You Are… has been terribly neglected due to various things including the writer falling in love, taking an extended Christmas break, being quite busy and being rubbish at updating this blog, basically. And now? I’m back with a grammar fight.
This feature was published with the headline “Signed, sealed, delivered: by who?”
Then a reader complained that it should be whom, not who. “Just because you may think you’re editing for techies, geeks and nerds does not excuse poor English grammar.”
So they changed it and added a correction to the online version: “This article was amended on Friday 9 January 2008. The headline, ‘Signed, sealed, delivered: by who?’ was grammatically incorrect. This has been corrected.”
Now Michael Rosen has complained about it being changed.
I’m amused. And no, I didn’t write the headline myself.
