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Subject:RE: who vs that From:"Claire Conant" <Claire -dot- Conant -at- Digeo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:59:17 -0700
How about a *definitive* source, such as Garner's Modern American Usage
(or even Strunk and White)?
Garner says: (page 836, section D)
"Who is the relative pronoun for human beings (though that is also
acceptable); that and which are the relative pronouns for anything other
than humans, including entities created by humans."
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