TIL: the singular reflexive pronoun 'themself' has been in use since the 1300s, and 'themselves' in the plural since 1466 and as a singular reflexive only since 1529
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I had to fight to retain ‘they… themself’ in my formulation of an exam question just a couple of years ago.
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