Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 04, 2023

I think you too could yoohoo Sally!

Pretentious? Moi!?

He didn’t want Sally to yell at a girl for him going Yoo Hoo to her.

I thought he was ordering a nice, cold YooHoo.

Don’t you mean “Yahoo!?”

He was yoohoo-ing us readers outside the fourth wall.

All hail the grammar— whatever.

Whom indeed !

To answer your question, Sally…he’s “yoo-hooing” all of us loyal readers!

“Never end a sentence with a preposition!” – Sr. Pancratius, circa 1965. At.

Knock Knock! Who’s there? Yoo Hoo! Yoo Hoo who? Yoo Hoo yourself!

I do love Linus.

Ask not for whom the bell yoo-hoos…

who……. whom……. owl……… person…….grammar is more harder with grammar police around.

‘Who did you "Yoo Hoo’ to?" should be a song. Anyone want to try??

Yet another reason I can’t stand Linus.

Don’t be such a grammar nazi, Linus.

I like Sally’s alliteration.

The Grammar NotSee Strikes again. Some of those around these here parts, to, boy howdy.

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=X_f5FMAr9Ik

I say “good grief” so much, I always thought I was Charlie Brown. But now I realize I am actually Linus.

You hoo,…. who do,…. that voodoo….. so well!

Yoo whom doesn’t have the same ring to it. Just like the rock band, the Whom.

You seldom hear anyone yoo hoo these days.

A beverage company, that’s who he Yoo Hoo’d to.

Before Ross Gellar, there was Linus Van Pelt to instruct us on the usage of ‘whom’. Got the same response.

Panel 2 shows a lack of education or lack of attention in English class.

Grammar police were rampant even in the seventies.

“You Whom?”

Smart she likes and smartass she doesn’t.

The idea that sentences shouldn’t end with a preposition is false but unfortunately still commonly believed. In fact, many sentences will only sound right if the preposition is at the end, e.g., “What were you thinking of?”. Sally’s sentence is another example. And while “whom” is correct according to strict grammar rules, “who” is idiomatically correct and perfectly normal in speech.

Sorry to ruin the joke, but despite what your elementary school teacher taught you, it is OK to end a sentence with a preposition. That was a ‘rule’ invented by some who wanted English to have the same rules that governed Latin. They thought it was classier. Latin is a Romantic language (no, nothing to do with love), and English is a Germanic one. Terminal prepositions, as we call them in the trade, are fine in German and equally fine in English. Sorry, Linus.