"with Frances and me"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Aug 1 06:56:00 UTC 2014


Whence the <jk>…

LH

On Jul 31, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Jocelyn Limpert wrote:

> No -- you would say "with me" and not "with I."
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> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Shouldn't that be,
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>> "with Frances and *I*"? :-( <jk>
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