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To: kumar who wrote (116538)	5/27/2005 8:01:07 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793843

Go figure. The abuse of "myself" is a fairly recent phenomenon in the States. "Me and John went..." is very old. I thought it had been all but wiped out back when I was in school but it has apparently made a comeback. The "Queen's English" is never taken literally to mean what "SHE" speaks. Its a description of "(propper) British English" Yes, I know. But since you asserted that it was correct Brit English to use the objective rather than the nominative case of a pronoun as the subject of a sentence, hard for me to believe, the simplest way of verifying my take on it was to find something an educated Brit had said. It seemed to me that the Queen would qualify. I don't hear a lot of British English spoken, but I think I would know if they had started saying "me went..." as you asserted.