To be worried that the word MYSELF might actually becone interchangeable with me or I?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Yeah language evolves, but for farksake "myself and my husband went to the pub", "contact myself with any further queries" and so on.

This is an abundance of Wrong. And it hurts my head.

Didn't the OED add a new meaning to literally because of common usage of the word? This may happen to myself.

Myself is pissed off with the situation. What about yourselves?

YANBU

Even worse is the rise and rise of 'yourself' instead of 'you'. People in northern call centres do this a lot for some reason. As in 'That's your account all up to date for yourself Ms Smith. Anything else I can help yourself with today?' Just baffling. Where did it start?

I would also happily remove the esses from verbs which appear/disappear depending on who's carrying out the verb. So "when me go to the pub with my husband him always buy me a drink". Perfectly understandable and no need to worry about which case or person you're using :-)

Corus No! No! No! What? Where will it end?

this is soooooo annoying.

I only hear this when I go back to the UK and it makes me snigger every time.

'I'll arrange for myself to stay overnight then.'

But your grammar-offending colleague was using' myself 'correctly in this instance wasn't he?

@ Corus

Oh yes, drives me crazy. I also have the awful feeling that in the not too distant future it will be become accepted along with should of, could of etc.

"Ah, 'tis yourself" is also a common greeting among older people in very rural areas in Ireland.

Ah, you see Maryz in an Irish accent it doesn't sound so wrong

If I said 'My sister and I' in Ireland it would sound very stilted and pretentious. And 'Me and my sister' is just as grammatically incorrect as 'myself and my sister' in a lot of cases.

Some people just think they sound smarter if they say more, rather than less. I also get annoyed by the utilisation of 'utilise'. Why can't they just use 'use'?

Ditto 'cleanse' instead of 'clean'. I hate the word 'cleanse' anyway, it always sounds like horribly unctuous advert-speak.

It sends me apoplectic with rage. Which, granted, is probably an overreaction but I just do not understand it. The whole trying to sound "posher" or "more formal" by writing gubbins aspect of it really gets to me. There is nothing posh about bad grammar.

Yup, me, myself and I are all with you on this, O.P.

'Gubbins' is a word that more people should take up. Love that word.

It reflects (ha! nice joke eh?) very poorly on the speaker. I hate to say I do think it's a misguided attempt to smarten up one's speech.

It does leave the speaker open to serious ridicule.

I feel very sorry for people who did not have the privilege of a decent grammatical grounding.

If we read more, perhaps exposure to the correct way of speaking would come more easily to everyone.

Sadly, most of those who misuse 'myself' and 'yourself' do so by copying other ill-educated middle-ranking polyester-suited management and the verbal poison will continue to spread.

Hold your line OP, there are lots of us behind you.

'I'll arrange for myself to stay overnight then.'

But your grammar-offending colleague was using' myself 'correctly in this instance wasn't he?

No. He should just have said "I'll arrange to stay overnight then". If he was arranging for someone else, you would say "I'll arrange for them to stay overnight", not "I'll arrange for themselves to stay overnight", wouldn't you?

I likewise find the word "utilize" overkill. I'm hard-pressed to think of a reasonable usage outside of specific vernaculars i.e. "utilization rates" or similar.

SybilRamkin of course 'utilise' has valid utilisations, it's the unnecessary utilisation of it that annoys me.

My line manager who is 12 sent an e mail saying "If any one has ran out of stock please let myself know".
I have resigned.

Myself hasn't heard such a prolific use of the word unlike yourself.

I received an email this morning with this sentence:

"it ensures that we as a company and yourself are on the same wave length"

I might cancel my order.