different between myself vs others

English

Alternative forms

• meself (non-standard)
• myselfe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English myself, meself, me-self, me sylf, from Old English m? self, m? seolf (“myself”), equivalent to me (pronoun) + self (pronoun), later partly reinterpreted as my + self (noun), my +? -self. Compare Scots mysel, mysell (“myself”), West Frisian mysels (“myself”), Dutch mijzelf (“myself”), Norwegian Bokmål meg selv (“myself”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ma??s?lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf
• Hyphenation: my?self

Pronoun

myself (reflexive case of I)

1. (reflexive) Me, as direct or indirect object the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition, when the speaker is also the subject. [from 9th c.]
2. Personally, for my part; used in apposition to I, sometimes for simple emphasis and sometimes with implicit exclusion of any others performing the activity described. [from 10th c.]
3. In my normal state of body or mind.
4. Me (as the object of a verb or preposition). [from 10th c.]

   I feel like myself.

5. (archaic) I (as the subject of a verb). [from 14th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged:

     Myself am confident that an ointment of it is one of the best remedies for a scabby head that is.

6. (India, Pakistan, nonstandard) my name is...

Usage notes

• Use where I could be used is mostly poetic or archaic, except with a coordinating conjunction, such as and.
• Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) reports opposition to the intensifier use, especially where I could be used.
• AP Stylebook Online (2010) reports opposition to the intensifier use as reflexive pronouns (like myself) should not be used instead of objective pronouns (like me).

Synonyms

• (reflexive pronoun): me

Related terms

• myselves

Translations

See also

Middle English

Alternative forms

• myselve

Etymology

From Old English m? self, m? seolf, equivalent to my +? self.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?s?lf/

Pronoun

myself

1. myself

Descendants

• English: myself
• Yola: meezil

References

• “m?-self, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ð?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ð?z/

Noun

others

1. plural of other

Noun

others pl (plural only)

1. Other people.

2. Those remaining after one or more people or items have left, or done something else, or been excluded.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with other's (“belonging to the other”).

Translations

Verb

others

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of other

Further reading

• others on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Rothes, Stoehr, Tosher, hetros, hoster, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, throes, tosher