To wonder what has happened to the word "Me"?

[Mrsbennington]

Everything I read is "myself and...." or "X and myself...." It doesn't make sense. Why are people using this more and more. What is wrong with good old "me" and "I" ?

A plague is what it is.
I'm afraid to say it brings out my inner (hidden) stabby and I judge people who use it and cross them off my supplier list

Ohhhh yasooooonbu! Spent over half an hour waiting to speak to tax credits only to have to talk to in inarticulate numpty who used myself and yourself so much I couldn't actually make sense of what he was saying. I had to keep repeating it back in actual English to check I'd understood him! Urgh!

It's very office-y isn't it?

Whatabout, I have "me that" from toddler DD all day long. Meaning, presumably, "give that to myself".

I know exactly where it has gone..it has moved to the very start of the sentence as in, "Me and Jane are going clubbing".

Arggh I can't bear it! I cringe inwardly ever time I hear it used incorrectly.

Hissy I don't know how you cope. Estate agents are some of the worst culprits for mangling the English language in at attempt to sound posh. It would drive me mad.

My colleague and I share a letter bank on the computer, every time I come across one she has used it is amended to "myself" and every time I change it back to "me" and so on and so on. It amuses me endlessly and I suspect infuriates her as she thinks my language skills are less posh than hers!

Ha ha Mrs that's brilliant! That's exactly where 'me' has gone.

I saw a video earlier with that jayda fransen saying it. If that doesn't stop people saying it, nothing will.

Myself i mean, not me.

'Myself and my mother went shopping' is perfectly correct Hiberno-English.

'That would be myself, Lord Sugar' is the kind of abomination trotted out by youths in suits who think that there is a particular idiolect in which Alan Sugar must be addressed, or Karren Brady and Claude Whatsit will surge over the boardroom table like attack dogs.

Today during a call to gas people:

"so is there anything else myself can help yourself with there today?"

OMG I HATE the chronic misuse of "myself". I winced when that chap on The Apprentice said it last night. If I was Lord S I would have made a mental note to fire him asap. Why oh why do people say it??
I also find the mispronunciation of project as 'prO-ject' painful.

Thank you, honeylulu, for the actual grammatical reason.

I'm just going to start saying, "you realise 'myself' is a reflective pronoun, don't you?" Whenever anyone says it, and walk away shaking my head.

That'll learn 'em!

DH is a salesman and it is a very salesman thing. I wince every time I hear it but I think I have now after 9.5 years together managed to train it out of him. He has even almost learned when it is correct to use I and me! For some reason, I can let slide the incorrect use of me when it should be I, but the other way round irritates me to no end. One friend is particularly bad for it on Facebook - always writing to people "Happy birthday from John and I" ... bleugh

I was dismayed to hear the head of year at my son's school using 'myself' as described here. I have considered writing an anonymous letter to the head.

Bloody autocorrect, I of course mean reflexive.

Myself gives up.

I think part of the reason things like this are becoming so common is that we've stopped teaching English grammar properly in schools. The only way I knew what reflexive pronouns and verbs were was from studying a foreign language (the teaching of which is also dying out in schools).

I predict further enragement of innocent MNers as long as this situation continues!

English grammar is taught well in my dd's primary school. She can correct a misplaced 'myself' with consummate ease. It's certainly better than the ways in which grammar was taught when I were a girl and all round here was nowt but fields.

YANBU and I most definitely blame The Apprentice as well. If my memory serves me correctly, it dates back a good few years to when Sir Alan (as he then was) asked who the project leader of team (insert stupid name) was and one of the candidates uttered the words 'That was myself, Sir Alan' and the rest is history.
Sadly I fear that we may be swimming against the tide as I hear it more and more from people I used to respect and it may become a case of language 'evolving' and will come to be considered as correct usage. We live in sad times.

YANBU. I was asked to proofread a communications piece at work, which had the word 'myself' used incorrectly. I suggested they take it out. They left it in.

I was never taught grammar. I couldn't distinguish a reflexive pronoun form a doughnut. I can, however, correctly construct a sentence, using me, myself and I correctly.

I is another what is utterly befuddled and annoyed by such misuse!

Me also judged the Apprentice candidates on their self promoting twaddle, after laughing my socks off, that is

I myself really hate it, almost as much as should/would/could 'of' instead of 'have', but not quite.

DGD never says me. Never says I either come to that.

But I realized everyone around her says give it to 'grandma' or 'daddy' or whoever not I or me. I spose we were teaching her everyone's name - then it just continued. She is 2 not 20 btw.

It makes me RAGE, I hate it.

My grandmother was Irish, when she was talking her speech was absolutely peppered with "myselfs", but that was different, it was a perfectly idiomatic way for her to speak.
I could imagine a conversation between her and her friend thus:

-"Do you watch The Apprentice yourself at all?"
-"Ah no, I don't care for it myself, so. Would I be wanting to watch Himself shouting away when I'm sitting down quietly in the evening?"
-Well, I don't like the man, but I like to have the telly on, myself, for the company.

A whole world away from the way it is being used now - where the conversation would probably go "Does yourself watch The Apprentice?"...