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?

"Mardy, Chaos' sockpuppet is on that thread"

Shameless plagiarism. I will be having words.

Perfectly allowable in Ireland, as we speak Hiberno English right?

Those other fake formal uses are awful though.

Exactly Maryz like saying 'I'm after getting the bus into town'. I would say it and write it in casual speech (text message) but not in anything formal!

I have a colleague who is intensely irritating in every respect and he abuses reflexive pronouns constantly.

The other day, on hearing him say on the phone 'if I could meet with yourself..', I may have bellowed 'YOU!' at him.

I go to great pains to correctall the erroneous reflexive pronouns in my students' work. I have a nice ready-typed sentence about the need to learn how to use 'myself' in a grammatically correct manner that can be copied and pasted into just about every single comment sheet I ever write.

The abuse of 'myself' in students' reflexive writing is horrifying.

Calamitously - give us your corrective sentence. Please! I need to find a clear and simple way to cure my dear husband of this affliction. Some well thought out words would help enormously or I may just wallop him over the head with a saucepan the next time he says ''my wife and myself" .

which would be a pity as he is really a very lovely man in every other respect

I don't want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself oh oh oh...

I can see you lot have been in the pub with sociable tarzan

Another Irish person here who uses 'myself'/'yourself' and esp 'himself' when talking. The nuns at school were very keen on distinguishing between formal and informal language so I wouldn't use it in formal writing.
Myself/Yourself as used in place of me/you is a direct translation from Irish where the 'fein'(self) in 'me fein/tu fein' is used for emphasis. So the sentence 'Myself and Mary are going to the pub' is a direct translation of 'Ta me fein agus Mary ag dul go di an phub'

I can't see what's wrong with "I'll take the first slot for myself"... Wouldn't you say "she booked the first slot for herself then the rest for other people"? You certainly wouldn't say "she kept the first slot for her"

I agree. "I'll take the first slot for myself" is a correct use of the reflexive pronoun.

Alas my pre-done sentence simply flags up the issue and points them in the direction of the student writing support teams. I'm not sure your husband would benefit from it much.

Yeah. What Maryz said. [wunk]

I couldn't agree with you more. I get v. sniffy and on my high horse about such things.

My absolute bug bear at the moment, tho, is 'around'. Not as in 'the house is just around the corner' or any other rational use of the word. No - when it is used instead of 'about' or 'regarding'. So - 'discussions around treatment options'. FFS. What did 'about' or 'regarding' ever do to anyone???! Has become so pervasive I fear some grim OED update.

Oh merce now you've reminded me that BBC newsreaders have joined the fashion for saying that they are 'across' stories

We are all going to have to live in caves aren't we?

Maybe caves with wifi ?

This is driving me nuts at work. I am a bit concerned that I am going to snap at the next person to say it and get myself into trouble. Though perhaps I would be doing them a favour, wouldn't I?

yourlittlesecret is your line manager really 12?

We are buying a house at the moment, dealing with estate agents and professionals in associated trades. My voicemail is overflowing with messages asking "yourself to call ourselves on 12345 678910 and ask for myself".