Quoted in the NYT:

[Jonathan Lighter]

Yeah, but there is no "I" in "team."

JL

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> There is a "me" in "American."
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> --Charlie
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> "For the first time in my adult life, I feel like there's a part of
> America that _me_ as an American can belong to." - Tim Weldon.
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