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Another supposed rule to watch is the rule that we use “who” for humans and “that” for animals and inanimate objects. A year ago several readers sent me the same headline from the Fort’Myers (Fla.) NewsPress: “Sheriff asks for help in finding four men that escaped with $500,000 in jewelry.”
The editors of Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage scorn this “rule” as an unfounded notion. They note that Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin and Robert W. Service all used “that” for humans. In Webster’s view, “‘that’ is definitely standard when used of persons.”
OK by me, but if I had been writing that headline, I would have referred to “four men who escaped.”
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