Are ‘Me and My Friends’ Breaking Grammar Rules? The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:05:13 0:00 Pop-out player Parents always have concerns about the way their children speak. Personally, I am unhappy when I hear my children saying things like, Me and Eric will be there soon. Now, I am learning that I should not worry. Over the past 20 years, English grammar teachers have developed some powerful new tools to learn about how people really use English. One such tool is the Corpus of Contemporary American English, or COCA. A corpus is a collection of language samples drawn from books, speeches, television programs and online work. Researchers use computers to study the corpus. The COCA website says the purpose of looking at this body of information is to find out "how native speakers