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Originally Posted By: Jackie"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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