myselfWhat I had never noticed until yesterday was that it's not logical. No surprise, we are talking about English, a language not known for its logicality (not that any languages are, particularly). But I'd never spotted the illogicality in this context before.
yourself
himself/herself/itself
ourselves
yourselves
themselves
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Sunday, 28 August 2011
Theirselves and meself
As you know, the paradigm of reflexive pronouns in English is as follows:
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