Between he and she
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Thu Feb 18 18:15:54 UTC 2010
On Feb 18, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Yesterday I heard a network TV reporter, talking about Tiger Wood's
> eagerly anticipated statement before close friends and associates,
> say that Woods had said it was between he and his wife.
>
> Or have I been too sheltered?
apparently the latter. a few from my collection:
We’ll see what happens between he and Alan Alda.
(Ellen DeGeneres, about Jimmy Smits, on the tv show Ellen, 1/24/05)
from an old Night Court episode (seen 8/13/05), a ventriloquist
talking about dummies:
... depends on... and the rapport between he and his ventriloquist.
... my daughter just decided this year she wants she and I to
volunteer to go and answer phones...
(Morning Edition Sunday, 9/11/05, Sunday Puzzle segment, listener
Chad Graham (of St. Louis) talking)
(from 2005) Frances McDormand in a documentary, regarding the
character she plays in the movie Fargo:
So much of the character of Marge Gunderson relies on the
partnership between she and Norm.
Skilling Calls He and Lay a ‘Good Team’
(AP story headline, 4/12/06, reported on by Ben Zimmer at
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003016.html)
on and on it goes -- and these are fortuitously found examples. not
ones search for systematically.
nominative in the second of two conjoined objects is more common, but
it's also there in the first.
arnold
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