Between he and she

[Joel S. Berson]

I am not that sheltered from the speech of commoners, such as Ellen
DeGeneres, but this was a network TV correspondent.

In any case, I weep for Boston.

Joel

At 2/18/2010 01:15 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>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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