- I shot myself in the foot.
- Nobody helped me make the bread, so I ate it all myself.
- I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter.
Sadly, I hear a lot of incorrect uses -- as a substitute for "me," or even "I." For example, I have heard the following (slightly changed to protect the guilty):
- When you're done with that, give it to Bill or myself.
- Myself and John went to the concert.
Well known, educated people spoke the undisguised versions of the above.
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Sometimes, the well-known and the educated take poetic license. An example that readily comes to my mind is:
If I were Lord of Tartary,
Myself, and me alone,...
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