Talk:Possessive me

When used

To my mind, "me" is simply a pronunciation spelling of [mi] when that is used as the weak form of [maɪ]. I've never heard anyone using "me" as the strong form; "my" is standard there. Thus:

• I'll do [mi] best. (weak)

But

• Hey! That's [ˈmaɪ] pint, get your own! (strong)

It is highly dubious to suggest that "me" as used in the first sentence is the same word as the object pronoun me in:

• Give it to me!

Unless there are actually people who would say

• Hey! That's [ˈmi] pint, get your own! (strong)

jnestorius^(talk) 23:37, 9 November 2006 (UTC) Possibly in NI, I can't remember anybody saying that explicitly but I can imagine someone saying it (I come from NI). 79.72.72.15 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC).

People in Yorkshire and north-east England pronounce it 'me', but it's considered to be colloquial. I'd consider this to be a difference in pronunciation. Regardless, I don't think it deserves its own section.--Jcvamp (talk) 21:24, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

You should also bear in mind that in the example given on this page, if it were Cockney it would be pronounced 'That's me 'ouse'. 'Ouse doesn't have its own page on here, or entry in the dictionary.--Jcvamp (talk) 21:27, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

I tend to agree with Jnestorius that this is a matter of stress and pronunciation rather than a separate linguistic entity from 'my'. Can't find much documentation for "possessive me"; there is this but it's not much.  pablo 17:16, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

The same thought as yours, Jnestorius, is presented here (near the bottom of the section), but there it is stated whereas you question it. 71.214.211.10 (talk) 21:39, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

delete or redirect?

Well, it must be one or the other. Either simply get rid of this nonsense (we don't have articles on variant pronunciations of other words) or redirect to I (pronoun). SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 17:34, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Redirect if anything. 'gonna' redirects to Going-to future (not sure why we have that page either, this isn't a spectacular phenomenon in language by any means), 'wanna' slow redirects to Relaxed pronunciation. ALTON .ıl 06:31, 8 December 2010 (UTC)