The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118743   Message #2571214
Posted By: Charmion
19-Feb-09 - 04:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: World's best grammatical howlers
Subject: RE: BS: World's best grammatical howlers
In an e-mail of formal direction received today at the office:

"All returns to myself by 1600 hr on Friday."

If I were [note subjunctive] Queen of the World, I would restrict the use of reflexive pronouns to those who own a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style (or, for those in Britain, an early edition of Fowler's English Usage) and bloody well use it!