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A new rule for the Queen and I?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

John Honey
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Abstract

A fresh perspective on the prescription-versus-description debate, including a new approach to such pronominal (ab)use as ‘between you and I’

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1995 , pp. 3 - 8
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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