>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>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'.
>>>
>>>Which, I think is the naut. past tense of "to heave [to]" as in "The ship was hove to in the shallows!"
>>>
>>>>
>>>>And then there are "drink - drank", "sink - sank", "think - thank", "blink - blank", "link - lank"
>>>
>>>So what's the past tense of "wink"? :-)
>>
>>Left it out deliberately. ;)
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>You just have to love this language.
>>>
>>>"love"? past tense of "live"?
>>
>>Past tense of 'leave'.
>
>As per my last post "heave to" -> "hove to"?

Of course. I like to sprinkle my notes with vague references to previous notes wherever I can. Keeps the opposition off balance.