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• _Gandalf_the_Black_@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/that

  That refers primarily to people or things; which refers primarily to things, and who refers primarily to people. Some authorities insist who/whom be used when making reference to people, but others, such as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, write that such prescriptions are “without foundation” and use of that in such positions is common and “entirely standard”.[2] Hence, one sees both “he is the man who invented the telephone” and “he is the man that invented the telephone.”

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