Timeline for None so blind as they/them that will not see?
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 7:19 | answer | added | Talhs Rashid | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 14, 2018 at 12:37 | comment | added | aschepler | The word "that" never introduces an independent clause. In this saying, "that" (or "who", see @F.E.'s comment) introduces a dependent relative clause. | |
| Apr 14, 2018 at 11:59 | answer | added | Michael Harvey | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 24, 2015 at 2:43 | answer | added | Gary Botnovcan | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 22, 2015 at 4:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/601612639807111168 | ||
| May 21, 2015 at 8:46 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | @FE: Nice workarounds, and demonstrably more common way of phrasing the idiom, but they dodge the question. The question was not: "How is this idiom usually phrased? It was: If you had to choose " they" or "them", which is it? I suggest that the OP chose correctly, albeit not for exactly the right reason. | |
| May 21, 2015 at 8:40 | answer | added | Brian Hitchcock | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 21, 2015 at 7:52 | comment | added | F.E. | The idiom might be: "There's none so blind as those who will not see" -- The Free Dictionary by Farlex; or maybe "There are none so blind as those who will not see" wiktionary; or . . . | |
| May 21, 2015 at 7:51 | comment | added | RJHunter | "blind" can be a verb sometimes, but it is an adjective in this example. The real verb is implicit: "[There are] none so blind as..." | |
| May 21, 2015 at 7:35 | history | asked | Phoenix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |