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You were incorrect. Your daughter said “The W.H.O.” where as you only said “Who”


Sooo... You're asserting initialism vs acronym and I'm asserting comedy?

Sorry if I took you away from fact checking open mic night. :-D


I'm not asserting initialism vs acronyms. I'm talking about the grammar of "Who did".

If you actually meant the World Health Organization, you'd have to interpret that as "World Health Organization did". This is obvious incorrect, and rather should be "The World Health Organization did". So there is no way for your daughter to have interpreted what you said as talking about the World Health Organization, whether initialism or acronym.

> Sorry if I took you away from fact checking open mic night. :-D

No, I wasn't distracted at all. Thanks for the concern, though.




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