How did the copy editor pass this?

[LifeIsGoodish]

It's on the cover!

I feel very stupid...

Is it a who / whom thing?

Is it the ellipsis?

I'm struggling with what is wrong with this? If it is whom/who I imagine they just went with the most common usage rather than the grammatically correct.

I think whom would feel archaic on a cover for this kind of book

Capitals after the ellipsis!

It can't be whom/who. You'd sound so silly saying "whom" on this book.

I feel very stupid!

Looks like a terrible book! 😆

Capitals after the ellipsis are fine.

Yes, it's 'whom'. It would only sound wrong to those who do not use who/whom correctly.

And, before you accuse me of snobbery, this is Pedants' Corner - I'm allowed to be pedantic, even if pedantry sounds like snobbery to some.

I don't disagree, mind, but you asked for the editors reasoning

Editor's

Dammit

I’m a copyeditor (our professional body styles it as one word these days ), and I don’t think there’s anything thread-startingly shocking about this.

Well, I'm not so keen on capitals after the ellipsis tbh, if we are talking pedantic.

Presumably it was agreed that the style of writing was more important than accurate grammar. I don't suppose it was an error.

I see much worse than that every day, everywhere. It appears that most publications employ people who are unable to recognise poor spelling, grammar and punctuation.

It’s about register.

It won’t have been an oversight - it’ll have been an deliberate choice on the part of the person who wrote it (probably a marketing person). A copyeditor would have recognised that “whom” wouldn’t work particularly well in this context, so would have been unlikely to mark a change.

I really recommend Stan Carey on this topic:

stancarey.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/who-to-follow-is-grammatically-fine/amp/

a deliberate choice 🙄

Thanks, I understand fine when to use each word. Being a pedant doesn't mean talking like it's the 17th century though when it's not appropriate.

I would assume they had a long-ish debate about this, knocked up both versions, decided "whom" sounded daft, job done.

Ooh, you're being very old-fashioned here, op. 'Whom' would sound unnecessarily formal in this context.

The boundary between who and whom is increasingly blurred: see www.lexico.com/en/grammar/who-or-whom

Plus, don't blame the copy-editor!! This is strictly an in-house mistake. I'm an editor and have never been asked to proof a book cover.