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Grammar Girl here, today we're going to learn a lesson about pronouns from the delightful,

inspiring and just a tad grammatically incorrect Olympic theme song.

Here's the song.

Oh, I heard that one coming.

Fly doesn't rhyme well with me.

Lest you think I'm being a snobby American, I want you to know that I've been getting email

messages from Canadians ever since the song debuted. Here's one from Gilda in Thornhill, Ontario.

She writes,

As a Canadian, I'm very proud and excited that my country will be hosting the upcoming Winter Olympics

in Vancouver. Our national broadcaster of the games has started to play their official theme song,

I believe, and it really is gorgeous, inspiring and uplifting.

However, as much as I love it from a patriotic and sports lover point of view,

I have a problem with it. One of the lines in the chorus repeated in several places in the song

is I believe in the power of you and I to rhyme with fly. I realize they needed I instead of me

for the rhyme, but it still offends me. As an Olympic fanatic, I know I'm going to hear this song

a million times in the next three weeks, but as a grammar stickler, it's going to bug me every

single time I hear it. What do you think? Well, Gilda, what do I think? I think we shouldn't be

surprised when songs are grammatically incorrect because they're like poetry, and there's a reason

breaking the rules is called taking poetic lessons. But I share your cringing and hate to think

that millions of people are singing along, absorbing the incorrect phrase into their subconscious,

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