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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (642)	1/7/1998 7:27:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Jack, Oblivious may be an interesting example of our changing language. The American Heritage Dictionary has a Usage Panel which votes on questions such as these. In their most recent edition is the following note: In an earlier survey, a majority of the Usage Panel accepted the use of both 'of' and 'to' with oblivious. From the 1969 edition: Both 'of' and 'to' are acceptable to 53% of the Usage Panel...;the remainder accept only 'of'. Either there has been another survey between these two, or the emphasis is shifting toward the acceptability of both. (At least that's what the wording says to me.) Then I started wondering just who these people were. The Panel seems to be made up primarily of writers, columnists, and professors (some really impressive names), with some interesting inclusions, such as Tony Randall, Letitia Baldrige, Garrison Keillor, Mark Hatfield.