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Congratulations on your hard work. - A. Edit. "Why is the article "the" essential here?"

Hi Avangi, It is a proper word according to the Merriam-Webster's dictionary.

From answers.com : Speakers of some vernacular American dialects, particularly in the South, may use the possessive reflexive form hisself instead of himself (as in He cut hisself shaving ) and theirselves or theirself for themselves (as in They found theirselves alone ). These forms...

I have trouble figuring out why 'grammar experts' get the blame for these. There are a number of reasons why people might disagree over these usages: colloquial vs written, American vs British, PC vs non-PC, prescriptivism vs descriptivism, and even one or two examples where there are...

Introduction taken from http://www.ead.ufms.br/letras/Literature/01-Origins_Of_English.pdf Origins of English (up to 1066) Historical Background Before the time of the Roman colonization in A.D. 43, Britain was populated by Celts and Britons, relatively primitive people without...