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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: RogerWillco who wrote (937)3/24/1998 6:57:00 PM
From: Sowbug  Read Replies (2) of 4710
 
As long as you're down, Roger....

...a blunder which was singled out, much to my embarrassment, in the header post of this thread.

"Which" is a descriptive conjunction; "that" is a restrictive conjunction. "That" is more appropriate here, because the "was singled out ... of this thread" portion of your sentence specifies which blunder you're talking about, rather than describing what a blunder is.

Compare:

I like cats, which drink milk. Suggests that the speaker likes all cats for their milk-drinking ability.

I like cats that drink milk. Here, the speaker is limiting his/her feline affection to the milk-drinking ones, implying that he/she doesn't like cats that (not which) are averse to milk.

Note that some intelligent, rational people will disagree with me here. Those people are wrong.
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