whom's
English
[edit]Contraction
[edit]whom's (rare)
- Contraction of whom is.
- [1880–9?], Mary B[reck] Sleight, “How We Didn’t Go to the Circus”, in Prairie Days or Our Home in the Far West, London: John F[arquhar] Shaw and Co., […], page 195:
- “Whom’s it for?” asked Dick, as Maud came running toward them, waving the note over her head. “For all of you, I think,” said Maud, reading aloud the address.
- 1895, Ian Maclaren [pen name; John Watson], “Afterwards”, in The Woman at Home: Annie S[hepherd] Swan’s Magazine, volume III (October 1894 to March 1895), London: Hodder and Stoughton, […], page 402:
- Whom’s it for? Oh! Mr. Edward Trevor; then it’s a brief by telegraph, I suppose.
- 2015–8, Harry M[artin] Anderson Jr., Sandra’s Saga and Matthew’s World: A Story of a Biracial Family, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
- “Whom’s it for?” “It’s for a friend.”
- Contraction of whom has.
- 1990 June, Jack D[ayton] Hunter, chapter 41, in Tailspin, New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 352:
- “How many you got aboard?” / “Three of us good guys, one of whom’s been banged around a bit, but he’s okay. […]”
- 1996 October, Charles de Lint, “Shining Nowhere but in the Dark”, in Realms of Fantasy, Herndon, Va.: Sovereign Media Co., Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, section 4, page 44, column 2:
- “Who do you mean by ‘us’?” / She shrugs. “People like me. Or my sisters.” / One of whom’s been disbelieved into looking like a guy and just happens to be Death. It’s so strange, when you think about it. Death’s got sisters.
- 2022, Malcolm Duffy, “Teh lnuch”, in Read Between the Lies, London: Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN:
- I get to live with two people I hardly know, one of whom’s been in prison.
Synonyms
[edit]- who's (when informally using who instead of whom)