How about "He asked Jane and I to help clean the house."  I'm hearing a lot of "I" as the subject of the infinitive now. It's in the same vein as the hypercorrection you mention, of course.   This is amongst my colleagues, some of the English teachers!

Edith Wollin



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	I'm looking for other examples of hypercorrection in English besides "and I" (as in "between you and I")? That's the example I invariably hear. Are there others?

	

	For those not familiar with the term, hypercorrection involves speakers overextending a legitimate correction ("Jane and me are hungry" to "Jane and I are hungry") to the point that they "correct" perfectly standard forms (like "Mom fed Jane and me") thereby making them nonstandard ("Mom fed Jane and I").

	

	Perhaps an overuse of "whom" in a mistaken attempt to be correct might be another example, as when a student writes, "...the Russians, whom we thought were our enemies,..." Others?

	

	Dick Veit

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