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"To whom did you give it", ignoring the "whom", sounds like something that might be generated by a robot trying to imitate the English language.

That contortion of a sentence comes from the old Prescriptivist rule "never end a sentence with a preposition". Never mind that it leads to such odd sentences as that, and a loss of clarity.

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The "prepositions are not things for ending sentences with" point is a distraction.

"Who did you hit?" and even "who hit who" have long been the norm in speech. The _whom_ version of those utterances would not often have passed the lips even of older, more educated English speakers in the last decade of the 20th century.

Here we are, nearly 20 years into this century and news is being published about the demise of a word that had almost entirely fallen out of common usage last century.

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