Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects

[Goddlefrood]

> > > CJ much earlier:
> > > "Either he or I ____ going."

> > Goddlefrood:
> > I do know that the answer to the above would be to insert 
'are'. 

> Carol responds:
> Oops. Wrong. 

Goddlefrood:

Well, what do you know? Instinct leads to what has been given as 
the correct answer by such diverse sources as:

http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic13207.html - Comment by 
Alan, founder of an ESL school and probably versed in grammar.

and this:

http://www.jstor.org/pss/370498 - You'd have to join to read 
in full.

I'd rather trust instinct and experts than listen to the 
disagreements here at OTC.

Meanwhile, it's not an expression that is likely to be used all 
that regularly anyway and even if the progenitor of this group 
used another word in place of are, doesn't mean I have to agree 
with her, and I don't. Just as I disagree with both Carol and 
Geoff.

Now, I may not be a grammarian, but I am something of an expert 
in the English language and don't appreciate being told I am 
wrong when I am not. It just depends what you choose to believe 
and I tend to believe my instincts when it comes to MY language 
rather than to quasi experts.