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"this story is about the King and I." ??? 
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"this story is about the King and I." ??? Just a suggestion for why The King and Me might work. And I stand by my observation that if The King and Me had been the title all along those of y'all who have been saying that The King and I sounds right and The King and Me doesn't would be arguing out of the other side of y'all's sense of linguistic propriety. I've never heard anyone complaining about the Robert Lawson children's classic, Ben and Me. Note, too that he wrote a book called Mr. Revere and I. You get the some sort of argument from folks who insist on retaining the moribund whom by appealing to the title of the Hemingway work, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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I've never heard anyone complaining about the Robert Lawson children's classic, Ben and Me. Note, too that he wrote a book called Mr. Revere and I.
That's because Ben is just Ben (and me) and we are pals, and Mr. Revere is a man of some reverence and I owe him the respect of being an I.
The King and me would not work. I stand by this observation.
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folks who insist on retaining the moribund whom by appealing to the title of the Hemingway work, For Whom the Bell Tolls. I agree that whom is moribund. Maybe Hemingway's title was a simple statement of that fact?
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Maybe Hemingway's title was a simple statement of that fact? Hemingway's title was from John Donne's Meditation XVII, written in an era when whom was not moribund.
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Maybe Hemingway's title was a simple statement of that fact? Hemingway's title was from John Donne's Meditation XVII, written in an era when whom was not moribund. Sorry for atempting to make a joke.
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Apologies for a good one, Latishya? I hope you are not serious.
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Siam (Thailand) still has a king, and he is highly revered.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Apologies for a good one, Latishya? I hope you are not serious. My apology was to Faldage whose reply indicates that he (or she) read my post as serious.
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