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| Link: BBC News, ‘Leicester Globe pub closes over anti-military rumours’ |
The Oxford Dictionaries webpage on ‘Personal pronouns’ observes that ‘[t]he correct use of personal pronouns is one of the areas of English usage that cause most difficulty’, but is concerned only with the erroneous usage of objective personal pronouns for subjective ones. The type of mangle above, where a reflexive pronoun is deployed as a subjective personal pronoun, isn’t mentioned there at all although, as this blog’s first post suggested, it is not uncommon.
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