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?

Perhaps they read a lot of historical novels/documents. 'Myself' appears not infrequently in similar context. Offhand example, thinking of letters of Anne Boleyn (plus novels of that era).

Another unnecessary lengthening that gets to me: the increasing use of "however" instead of "but" - e.g. "I was going to go to the shops however I didn't have enough time." It's BUT, fgs, why would you choose a much longer word that isn't even correct in that form?. The use of "however" would only work in that quote if you put a full stop or semi colon after "shops", but it's totally unnecessary anyway.

I think there is a difference between dialect (OK) and hypercorrect (not OK).

So, if Rastamouse says "Me haffi see the Prez and find out wha gwaan," that's dialect, which is fine.
If my mother said "I'm having some tea, how's about yourself?" that is also dialect, which is fine.

When a cold caller says "I'm just contacting yourself about how we could help save thousands of pounds every month on your utility bills" - that is not OK.

And as for meself, I'd find that fairly annoying.

I have a colleague who keeps lecturing me about the proper use of capital letters after a colon but does the myself thing. I have so far restrained myself (!) from pointing this out but I'm only human and one day I will crack

The one word I find too long and absolutely unnecessary is "absolutely". What's wrong with "Yes".
Short and affirmative.

When a cold caller says "I'm just contacting yourself about how we could help save thousands of pounds every month on your utility bills" - that is not OK.

That is terrible. Just terrible.

Apologies for the late reply to the comments on my post. I stand corrected on my statement about education - I assume things have improved since I was at school, or very possibly they did try to teach us and I just didn't pay any attention at the time!