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Old English had a first-person pronoun that inflected for four cases and three numbers. I originates from Old English (OE) ic, which had in turn originated from the continuation of Proto-Germanic *ik, and ek; [3] the asterisk denotes an unattested form, but ek was attested in the Elder Futhark inscriptions (in some cases notably showing the variant eka; see also ek erilaz).
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...
James Cochrane, author of Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English (2004), gives a similar explanation—in this case, "people"'s feeling some unease with a sentence like "Me and Bill went out for beers"; Cochrane does not, however, mark it as a hypercorrection, and suggests the phrase only came about "in the last twenty or so years" [20 ...
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Thanks, but you misunderstood my question. I'm not asking about the non-standard use of the word "me" for "my", I'm asking whether the use of the phrase "I'll get me [or "my", for that matter] coat" in the context I mentioned predates The Fast Show. --Viennese Waltz 12:32, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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