So let’s see “themself or themselves”: “Themselves” is the traditionally correct reflexive pronoun for referring to a group or a singular individual in a gender-neutral manner, widely accepted in both formal and informal contexts. On the other hand, “themself” is emerging as a gender-n...
themselves ( def ): The teacher introduced themself to the class. The kids began laughing at themself. Everyone who got the right answer can congratulate themself. The teacher introduced themself to the class. a reflexive form of singular they, as used to refer to a nonbinary or gender-non...
The meaning of THEMSELF is themselves —used chiefly as a gender-neutral reflexive form of they when referring to a single person in an indefinite way (as in 'each person can decide for themself') or to a person who is nonbinary.
Previous scholarly work on the pronouns ourself and themself describes them as variants of ourselves and themselves. In this paper, attested tokens of ourself and themself are examined, and the contexts in which they appear are analyzed. This analysis shows that these forms, and even some less ...
Themselfvs.themselves Themself? Now isn’t that just taking things too far? Absolutely not. For one thing,themselfreferring back to both a plural or singular generic/unspecifiedantecedentis almost as old as singulartheyin the written record: it’s recorded around 1350–1400, if considered nonstan...