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Double jeopardy. When I got to the office this morning Daisy, who is one of the English teachers and works in the International Office, was grilling Row about this sentence: Terri Schiavo was among at least ten thousand Americans with conditions their doctors say are beyond hope. I felt vaguely uncomfortable when I read the sentence and knew that the problem had something to do with "their doctors say". Remove that phrase and see what you get. Yup. The sentence is ungrammatical because there's a relative pronoun missing. It should read "...conditions which their doctors say are beyond hope". This is an instance of two phenomena in English. One is an instance of hypercorrection which occurs when some clause introducing reported speech (which has its own subject) is inserted into a sentence at a point where a subject relative pronoun should occur. Often, though, instead of inserting "who", some writers being familiar with the use of "whom" wil...