Me, Myself and Yourselfs

[CactusMactus]

Can't watch The Traitors anymore because everyone says "myself" when they mean 'me" and yourself/s" when they mean "you". Driving me (myself?) up the bloody wall!

@OchonAgusOchonOh I live in Ireland and yes, it's used much more in Hiberno-English, though like you say, there are rules.
It's common for people to refer to their SO as "Herself/Himself" e.g. "Herself and myself went down to the pub for a few" and to refer to others as " Yourself " e.g. "Go and have a lie down for Yourself?".
Hiberno-English is often directly translated from the Irish and different rules apply.

*That's colloquial Scottish (Glaswegian?)

Again I don't mind that.

It sounds ridiculous with a London accent*

@Nanny0gg yes, I always had it down as a Scottish thing. Still wrong, but can kinda accept it as a dialect thing. But it’s suddenly become VERY widespread and it makes me rage! It doesn’t even sound right 😬

@Blubbledand it's also usually mehself and yerself rather than myself and yourself.

I'm particularly partial to "It's yerself is it?"

Yep. I’m hired in my job because of my English yet one of the bosses decided it was the hill he was going to die on when I corrected it to ‘me’ in a letter. He doesn’t even have GCSE English!

How nice that this thread hasn't been hijacked by those selves telling us to get a life 😀

KC3 used 'myself' incorrectly in his first Christmas Day speech and it made me wince.

It is so fucking irritating. Honestly, it drives me mad. Where has it come from?

I have to confess to giving someone feedback at work about it...

Another one here who can't understand how and WHY it is everywhere.

I see your supposed incorrect use of 'me' and raise you my ex boss insisting I remove all the commas in the letter I'd drafted for him 'because they look messy.'

I was a privately educated, English graduate who studied linguistics at post-grad level. My boss....................hadn't.

😂😂😂

I actually think that the SWR train guards have a script for their announcements which includes the wording "contact myself the guard or another member of train crew".

Occasionally they depart from the ungrammatical script and say "please contact me".

On the plus side, your colleague didn't say "I've been reaching out"

I cringe when I hear ‘I’ used when it should be ‘me’

• between you and I - 🤮
• my boss invited wife and I - 🤮
• he explained to Fred and I - 🤮

And they think they are so correct! 🤮🤮🤮

It might be wrong, but people using 'between you and I' are in good company at least. Shakespeare used it, for example.

And lie /lay.

Looking at you Snow Patrol!

In fairness, Antonio was not exactly the brightest of characters.

I used to get this a lot with people ringing me at work. “I was told to ring yourself about a letter”… I would deliberately say back to them incorrectly so they could hear exactly how they sounded “myself sent a letter to yourself” purely because it gave me slightly evil pleasure to do so 😂

I have changed jobs now so thankfully it isn’t so much of an irritant now!