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An ‘I’ for a ‘my’: why we’re terrified of getting our grammar wrong

26 October 2019

9:00 AM

26 October 2019

9:00 AM

Jonathan Agnew recently described off-the-record interviews as those where you agree that it’s ‘between you and I’. Last month, Jess Phillips tweeted that she had ‘read a few wild accounts of Boris Johnson and I in the lobby’. And a Times journalist wrote about someone who had ‘made Jenny and I feel so welcome’.

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