The use of "Myself"

[BupcakesandCunting]

Just catching up with The Apprentice. Are they paid each time they say "myself" where "me" would do? It's driving me berserk! "That was myself Lord Sugar" "That was myself and Dave" "That was down to myself"

Drives me nuts. I don't watch The Apprentice, though. Just people doing it generally. Around me. On the radio. Wherever.

So yourself won't be going to Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Herrena?

No, I myself personally will give that one a miss Lashings!

What about you yourself?

limited I used to work with a consultant who, when he wanted to ask a question, would raise the index finger on his right hand, say "Question," in a very loud voice and then pause until everyone was looking at him. He was a knobber. He also said process as pro-cess (first syllable to rhyme with prop). One day someone will snap and hit him over the head with a wet teatowel.

My mother will open the door, see me standing there and proclaim 'it's yourself!'

Yeahbut, that's dialect, innit and therefore perfectly asseptable.

Whereas the use of 'myself' as per the OP is just bloody pretension!

People who incorrectly use "I" instead of "me" also get right on my nerves.... Eg "he gave it to him and I". Argh! You wouldn't sat "he gave it to I" so why does adding another person into the sentence make people lose all sense?

Hateful hateful hateful. Myself and yourself. Learn how to use reflective pronouns or don't speak to me.

This alone, drives me more crazy than all of the 'should ofs', rogue apostrophes, loose instead of lose etc etc offences.

My boss who is highly educated, today, wrote a letter saying 'I refer to your meeting with myself and ...' !! I sat and twitched for a while and then had to ask her PA to change it.

It's so idiotic and why oh why has it become some sort of epidemic? Does no-one understand the basics of grammar anymore? Idiots.

Yours good selves on this thread are making me laugh. Egregious reflexive pronoun violations are right up there with the complete inability to know when a word ends in -er. 'Chest of draws', 'palava' etc. I see it more and more. I get that the British pronounce a very weak r so it doesn't sound like there's an r there, but seriously, people??

My pet bugbear: 'speaking personally myself' I always want to ask if they have a split personality disorder.

Eskarina sadly round here (west country) no one would bat an eyelid with "he gave it to him and I .

Agree shudder at the myself pretentiousness DH and I mentioned this watching the Apprentice last night too. Bet they all say "pardon" as well.

It's a real HR/customer services thing.

'anything else i can do for yourself today.'

Makes me think,"You ignorant idiot".
Another recent thing is saying "AY" instead of "UH" for the indefinite article. Politicians do it all the time. Would anyone say, "Would you lika AY coffee? AY biscuit?"

I say neither, outmonday. I say 'a' to rhyme with 'ha'. A flat ha that is, not har.

peahen your intervention has saved DH from being whacked around the head with a wet shovel.

He's not knobber. Just a victim of his mother's gentility.

Your consultant was from the same school as someone I knew who used to say: 'It's my turn to speak now.'

Never mind. She's under the patio, or terrace, if you're posh.

My boss does it. She thinks she's special because she's got two masters degrees. She doesn't realise it's impolite to chew gum with her mouth open either but she's very very above the rest of us mortals.

God this is the funniest thread I've read in ages! BupcakesandCunting, your post about your estate agent made me laugh so much, my eyes were streaming with laughter. RedBlanket, your post was also hilarious!
This is so true, I hate hearing people say this and I think it's definitely used a lot by people who want others to think they are well educated. Instead it makes them sound like total dicks. I worry about the number of people who say "I" instead of me in certain situations, eg "do you want to come with Jane and I?". This basic grammar was only touched on at my school, my mum was my teacher of grammar. If it wasn't for her, I'd talk like that too....

I'm not the only one then?

This totally bugs me too. It's like a euphemism for me. Also hate when people like bank managers etc say things like "Of course that's up to yourselves" Sure it must be grammatically incorrect.

I HATE THIS TOO.

MrsSee I wasn't taught grammar at school either really. Any knowledge I have comes from reading and my parents. It means I know none of the actual technical terms. the problem comes when those around you aren't getting it right so you can't pick it up properly. Fewer and less being an example. If there are other people learning the same way as I did they are going to be a screwed as they are going to be surrounded by wrong information.

Could someone explain fewer and less for me?

Fewer if it can be counted. So fewer dogs, fewer cars and fewer plates

Less if it can't so. So less time, less water and less money

Please confirm someone because I'm self taught.

Bronze- yes, that's right. Bonus points if you shout at the telly when newsreaders get it wrong .

CHRIST, it drives me mad when people get less and fewer wrong. I shout at the telly/newspapers about it all the time. Wasn't there a debacle in Marks and Spencer or Waitrose or somewhere because they put up a till sign saying 'Five items or less' and customers complained?