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To: seowulf
It's one of those grammer deals where popular use is contray to the correct form. It gets to the point where what is wrong sounds right and what is right sounds pretentious.

My saintly mother still says, "Hello, it is I..."

36 posted on 12/15/2010 6:03:41 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: wtc911

Then again, when the incorrect becomes common it becomes correct, English being the living language that it is.

Otherwise, we’d all sound like Chaucer and a butterfly would be a flutterbee.


37 posted on 12/15/2010 6:14:48 PM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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