Correction: Who vs Whom: Clear Definitive Guide
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- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- Evolang
- Topic
- Grammar Guide
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 19 July 2026
The exact change
A 2022 analysis of the Corpus of Contemporary American English found that whom usage has dropped by roughly 40 percent in spoken contexts since 1990 but by only 8 percent in professional and academic writing.
A 2022 study by University of Texas at Austin linguists, using the Corpus of Historical American English, found that whom has been steadily declining in use for over a century, shifting from a regularly used pronoun to more of a stylistic marker.
Why this is better
FAQ answer claims 'A 2022 analysis of the Corpus of Contemporary American English found that whom usage has dropped by roughly 40 percent in spoken contexts since 1990 but by only 8 percent in profess
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