# The use of 'me' as a possessive pronoun **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 15, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715 "2017-11-15T21:02:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/41 "2017-11-21T20:31:29Z")
Interestingly enough, I was listening to a podcast from “The History of English” this very morning on this topic. [Pronoun pros and cons](http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2014/12/12/episode-54-pronoun-pros-and-cons/) Very enlightening, and the whole me/my phenomenon was discussed at length. It seems “me” as a synonym for “my” is found far more frequently in those regions settled by the danish vikings (Northumbria, etc.) than it is down south and west, like in Wessex. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/42 "2017-11-21T21:14:03Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I think the blisters are from going up and down the slide, or the helter skelter. > > Anyway, I hear that line as “my fingers” not “me fingers”. Is there any cite available either way? I suppose I could check Beatles Rock Band, but I’m not sure if that’s authoritative. OK, I just asked my kid to check it on Beatles Rock Band and they also say “my”, as well as every set of lyrics I could find online. Is Ringo from an area of the UK where he would be expected to say “me”? I have an English friend, and he uses it very rarely and, it seems, mostly ironically. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/43 "2017-11-21T22:02:59Z")
“No, it’s just me face.” ~Ringo Starr about comments in the early days that he looked sad. Now having said that, _Can’t Buy Me Love_ is still not saying ‘Can’t Buy My Love’. ---
**Author:** ![papaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@papaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papaw)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/44 "2017-11-22T00:44:20Z")
I think i is just leaving (for) out. Can’t buy (for) me love. I have been told to "buy me beer " here in Texas many times ! ---
**Author:** ![flip-68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@flip-68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flip-68)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/45 "2017-11-22T10:48:45Z")
I’m from Liverpool and we do indeed say me instead of my. although not everyone does it and not all the time where are me shoes? I forgot me bus-pass my wife is not from the area and finds it hilarious 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/46 "2017-11-22T12:15:32Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Is Ringo from an area of the UK where he would be expected to say “me”? I have an English friend, and he uses it very rarely and, it seems, mostly ironically. It’s a class thing as well as regional. AIUI John Lennon, however much he might have pretended otherwise, was “brought up proper” in the kind of lower middle class milieu that could get paranoid about sounding “common”. And yes, it can be used to stereotype Northern working class people; once upon a time, there was much mockery that, in the soap Coronation Street, the mardy teenager Tracy Barlow was always grumping off upstairs “ter play mi tapes”, until one day she did it and wasn’t seen again for fifteen years or so, when she re-emerged as a femme fatale. Or, in The Fast Show, there was a repeated sketch where a very dull man tried to join in a conversation with some joke or irrelevant remark that fell flat, and in the silence he would say “I’ll fetch me coat…” ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/47 "2017-12-02T23:27:06Z")
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**Author:** ![klaftern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7ba0ec/32.png) [@klaftern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klaftern)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715/48 "2017-12-04T04:15:35Z")
“Tie me kangaroo down, Sport” If yer not old, it’s a song from the 60’s… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-use-of-me-as-a-possessive-pronoun/801715.md?page=2)