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Show . . "It la Mi-. New York Tribune, The writer wlio in. ''ilhuices Here nnil There,,' ill NiUudaj's r, so caustically caustic-ally crilioi.-iM n llnrvnril profi-ssor for suviii!; Unit "uooil u.-e Inn i;ono a loiii; wan-to wan-to niiike ' il i me" idiomatic and "it i I" pcihinlic," bus )iroli:ilv never niul Demi Alfurd's -'I'len for tin- (Queen's Ktiffllsh," 111 which irnod irniiiiiiintical ri-uson-i arc elvi-n for tin- use of "it I me,,' or he Would have icconizcil tin: fact Unit others of liiirli repute in tlie ijriiiniiiKi- of the Knu'lish hiuuiu'e hold the saim- opiniun ns the Harvard prufcsMir. And this uot in an npoloi'tic way us Iuum-iI ou jrood u.-nue merely hut as liascil on n logical rule lvinir ill i-iii-r than llio.-e founil in ordinary irraiinii.ir. 'i hut iu fact "It is me" is oftcin r he correct epris.-iou than 'lt is I." the former lu-ina: the primitive form of spoken Kiiclisli mi l the latter nn occasion;!! innovation, brought into useful ciTorts to conform toan inipenloct rule of the grammarians. gram-marians. Our ;riiimnnri.ms (of the smaller smal-ler sort vide the dc:m do their desire to be very critical err iu Ihis as in their objection objec-tion to "than me," sei-min:; to forget that the laimuii'-rc w as established by oval speech before they made tlu-ir iron cluil rules and that the error is in the rules, not in the words spoken. --It is me." corresponds literally with the, French e'est moi to which no one objects on the si-ore of grammar. ISamcal H. Ti:iiuv. |
