| 词组 | hisself |
| 释义 | hisself Anyone who stops to think about it will notice that our standard reflexive pronouns are not very consistently formed. Some are formed on the genitive case of the pronoun: myself ourselves, yourself yourselves. Herself might be considered as a genitive as might itself if we allowed for merging of the two s's. But then we have himself and themselves, patently formed on the objective case, and we have to admit that the third person reflexives are just different. Bishop Lowth back in 1762 was aware of the anomaly and opposed himself and themselves as corruptions. He plumped for his self and their selves instead, citing the first from Sir Philip Sidney and the second from some statutes of Henry VI. He seems to have found himself and themselves particularly objectionable when used in apposition to the subject of a sentence: "He himself did it." Here the use of the objective case as a nominative troubled him, although Lindley Murray 1795 would later accept it. Lowth was not, incidentally, bothered by the genitive in "I myself," because 18th-century printers regularly printed the genitive forms of the reflexive pronouns as two words—my self, your self, and so forth. But usage paid no attention to the Bishop's plea for a more rational and consistent set of pronouns; Hisself and theirselves still exist, but they are considered nonstandard. You will find them, and theirself in dialectal speech, in fiction as part of the speech of rustic and unlettered characters, and occasionally used for humorous effect. • They run off as though Satan hisself was a'ter them with a red-hot ten-pronged pitchfork —Artemus Ward, "Interview with President Lincoln," 1861, in The Mirth of a Nation, ed. Walter Blair & Raven I. McDavid, Jr., 1983 • I wouldn't want nobody to have to strain hisself — Flannery O'Connor, letter, 28 Feb. 1960 See also theirselves. |
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