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Posted on November 7, 2019September 21, 2020 by Mark Schaefer

What’s Going On with You and I?

dictionary entry for the word 'and'

Recently, I’ve noticed an emerging phenomenon regarding the way people use pronouns that suggested to me that I was witnessing just such a change to the language.

Posted on February 16, 2019October 29, 2020 by Mark Schaefer

Between You and I: Hypercorrection or Sign of Things to Come?

dictionary entry of the word 'me'

Given the way that language changes and grows, it is clear that before long those speakers who persist in saying, “Just between you and me” and “This is really bad news for him and her” will be the ones perceived to be speaking ungrammatically.

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