Once you've bitten your tongue even once, even if you don't do it again for decades, your tongue is forever a bitten one.
I'm pretty sure I thought it was "asterick" when I was a kid, but someone straightened me out fairly early and I've gotten it right ever since. It's sadder, I think, that even educated people today seem to have given up the word "me" in favor of "I" whenever another person is involved. "He gave it to Sally and I" kind of thing. I can live with astericks, but not that.
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