Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Does it bug you when people talk about themselves in the third person? A caller finds herself mightily annoyed by this habit, which she observes especially among politicians and celebrities. There's a word for the practice of referring to oneself in the third person: illeism.

This is a minicast originally posted August 13, 2009.

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