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by SixSigma 4152 days ago
Rule of thumb: people who use whom are trying to sound clever.
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Not always. In this case, they'd be using correct grammar as it was used for quite some time (centuries?).

Of course, there are cases where people use a false whom because it sounds more sophisticated, but this isn't one of them.

Alan Partridge Interviews Child Prodigy Simon Fisher

Taken from the BBC Radio 4 Series "Knowing me, Knowing You."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZtM3_Lcy4