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A Church of England Vicar saying " Our Father,WHO art in Heaven" in the 19th century! Really, on the BBC too!

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Yes, it should have been "WHICH art in Heaven."

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That's pretty bad, but not quite as bad as the time when Jaggers used "their" as a singular unisex possessive in the 1999 Great Expectations.

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Not sure whether Dickens ever used that construction, but it has been used in British speech for hundreds of years, and by such writers as Addison, Austen, Chesterfield, Fielding, Ruskin, Scott, and Shakespeare.

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