Sunday, September 02, 2007

Who, Sir, They Sir? No Sir, Not They Sir!

My friend Larry laments over the future of the language, or at any rate, the absence of grammarians from the NYT copy desk:

Six years ago, he met Teresa Hillary Clarke at a party on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, where both spent summer vacations with the same African-American crowd, many of who, like they, went to Harvard, teach at Harvard or have children studying there.


From the Times'Sunday wedding feature. Who, they?

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