>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Interesting. I learned it somewhat differently. I learned that myself should only be used if the subject is 'you.' As in:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Correct. The rule of thumb should be that reflexives are used when the subject and object are the same
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"I xxx myself"
>>>>>>>"He xxx himselft"
>>>>>>>"We xxx ourselves"
>>>>>>>"You xxx yourself"
>>>>>>>"They xxx themselves"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>That should be "He xxxes himself" :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Maybe you couldn't tell from the context, but I was using xxx in the past tense where, as you know, it has an irregular conjugation using the infinitive as the past tense.
>>>>
>>>>The only ones I can think of, right now, are could, should and must, and none of these reflects. I thought XXX, while irregular, was XOX in the past tense, and still had a regular present 1st p sing.
>>>
>>>Probably one of those spelling differences between English and American.
>>
>>Like "Dive"
>>
>>We say "I dived into the pool" whereas you say "... dove ...". Don't know why this is. Perhaps cos of drive-drove, but there's thrive(d), strive(d), hive(d)
>
>Believe it or not, I say 'dived'. I feed birdseed to doves. I bet it came from 'drive - drove'.

As I speculated, but there are more regular verbs than this, as I cited.

My mother to this day still says "squoze" as past tense to squeeze (probably because of "freeze/froze"). That was what i was brought up saying, which I did till I was a teenager and someone laughed at me and pointed out the error. :-)