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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (751)	1/20/1998 2:03:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 4710

Holly, >>Number-one pet grammar peeve: Using "myself" in place of I or me I share your feelings about this current usage. I think it results from trying to avoid the perfectly proper use of the objective pronoun in compound constructions. For example: "That project was done by my wife and me." It's perfectly correct that way, of course, but people have tended to wrongly "correct" that to the horrible "by my wife and I". I guess they think they can get around the whole mess by using myself instead of "I" or "me". Jack

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