>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>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. :-)

I do have to admit that the two or three times in my life I might ever have used the past tense of 'hive', I would have said 'hove'.

And then there are "drink - drank", "sink - sank", "think - thank", "blink - blank", "link - lank"

You just have to love this language.