Showing posts with label Solecisms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solecisms. Show all posts

Monday, 14 September 2009

"You and I's house"

One does occasionally encounter such oddities as this. I can only conclude that the cause is having the partial truth "It is 'you and I' not 'you and me"' beaten into us.

See further: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6822414.ece.

Herein lies a further puzzle: why is this regular column from The Times on pedantry in English filed under 'Home... Life & Style... Women... The Way We Live...' ?