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• "between you and I"

  (Usage Disputes)
  
  

  
     The prescriptive rule is to use "you and I" in the same contexts
  as "I" (i.e., as a subject), and "you and me" in the same contexts
  as "me" (i.e., as an object).  In "between you and me", since "you
  and me" is the object of the preposition "between", "me" is the only
  correct form.  But English-speakers have a tendency to regard
  compounds joined with "and" as units, so that some speakers use "you
  and me" exclusively, and others use "you and I" exclusively,
  although such practices "have no place in modern edited prose"
  (WDEU).  "Between you and I" was used by Shakespeare in _The
  Merchant of Venice_.  Since this antedates the teaching of English
  grammar, it is probably *not* "hypercorrection".  (This is mentioned
  merely to caution against the hypercorrection theory, not to defend
  the phrase.)  Shakespeare also used "between you and me".

  
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Usage Disputes: "between you and I"', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 1380), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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