> I like this example because, for me, it demonstrates a flaw > in my English. > > For whatever reason, I always use " and I", even though > I believe both of your examples are flawed. I believe this comes about from parents telling us not to use "You and me", but instead use "you and I", which is correct, but I think it carried over in our heads so that "___ and me", we felt, was never correct. Or maybe that was just my parents... <grin> > Fish, comes to mind. One fish. Two fish. Not, two fishes, > although when I have looked it up the dictionary allows it. English seems notorious for this. Singular and plural forms of nouns are invariably different. Maybe they're all reading >from different rule books? :) I'm reminded of: Goose - Geese, Moose - Moose, > Fundamentally the reason I believe these flaws developled was > because I learned English from reading, far before I learned > about grammar, and as a result I lack a solid foundation. Heh. Well, there is always that... :) Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'