Is it I or me? I say, 'it is I, not it is me.

How do you say your standard English?

It might not be correct but I usually say "it's me" as do most people as far as I can tell.

Because some people will tell you, say 'it's me', not 'it's I.' When these people get a grammar book, they learn English.

"it's me" is just a part of popular speech since "it is I" sounds pompous.
As the language evolves, I imagine "our language" will eventually be accepted as being correct by the "experts".

The Beatles opened a U.S.A market speaking almost like the Americans. With Americanism, regionalism, or slang. Yah yah. "But she don't care."

It may have come out of British slang. Slang has been just as rampant in Britain as it has been in the US.

A rampant slang is so aggressive, at least they were the best singers in the 60's.

Rampant meaning widespread. It exists everywhere.

Whether it's grammatically incorrect or not, I like most people, I would yell out "It's me!" To say "It is I" sounds odd and pretentious, and sounds like something out of a Jane Austen novel.

What definitely is wrong is when people misuse the personal pronoun "me" instead of I in phrases like "me and my girlfriend went clubbing last night". That is used so much in the UK.

Another interesting point is the American use of the word in a phrase like "I am going to get me a cup of coffee now". You would never hear that in the UK even though I suppose there is nothing wrong with it grammatically.

LOL Damian, I sometimes use the kind of wording! "I am going to get me a cup of coffee now"

We urge "Hound", "Might Mick" and "Damian" to acquaint thenselves with the two words:

COLLOQUIAL
and
VERNACULAR.

Learn what these words mean and use them as often as you can when writing to each other.

Those two words and their derivatives will be most useful in understanding why and when we sometimes "sound wrong" if
we SAY a word in conversation which
we KNOW is correct when we write it.

And vice versa.

HES

hmmmmm

Gee, they look awfully familiar. Don't worry, I'm not really in awe when I witness PEDANTRY.

There are two more words of greater signifance we feel everyone should know instinctively. They're a little more abstract but we prompt "HES" to practice only the first one here.

AMIABLENESS
and
POMPOUS

Damian, there's another "overcorrection" that people also use. Having had it drilled into their heads that "Bobby and me want to go to the movies" is incorrect ("Say 'Bobby and I', Dulcinea"), they start to use "...and I" everywhere, such as:

"The Simpsons have invited you and I to the wedding"

It is me. (incorrect but more used)

It is I. (correct but less used)

WHAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE IS THIS?