In all your years of hanging around with English speakers, you probably never heard someone say, “Come by the office and talk to myself” or “Would someone please tell myself what’s going on?” But ...

Dave in Elkland, Pa., wrote to me recently about pronouns ending in “self” — myself, yourself, and so on — and how annoying they can be at times. “‘Myself,’ in particular, drives me near distraction,” ...

Chapter 5 of Lindley Murray’s English Grammar (1795) begins thus: A PRONOUN is a word used instead of a noun, to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word. The definition is useless: ...

Most of us use pronouns frequently in speaking and writing. We are familiar with most types and therefore use them almost without thinking, (e.g., “I,” ”we,” and “they.“) What may surprise you, ...

“If misuse of ‘I’ and ‘me’ is an irritant, the abuse of ‘myself’’ is nothing short of a blot on humanity.” As the jocular gibe above implies, the subjective pronoun “I” and the objective pronoun “me” ...