[lit-ideas] Me Attacks I Sucessfully

Robert quotes H. W. Fowler's _The King's English_, 1908: Many educated people feel that in saying It is I, Whom do you mean? instead of It's me, Who do you mean? they will be talking like a book, and they justifiably prefer geniality to grammar.

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The use of "me" in colloquialisms such as "It's me" and "it wasn't me" is perhaps the only successful attack made by "me" on "I."

_Fowler's Modern English Usage_, 2nd edition, 1965, listing for "me"

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