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illeism (IL-e-izm) - n., the practice of referring to oneself in the third person.
Either by pronoun or by name. Originally coined as a nonce-word by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from the Latin pronoun ille, he, that man, to mean someone who uses the third person pronoun excessively, but later contracted to using it for oneself and expanded to also using one's own name. Which is something Bob Dole will not stand for. The person who does it is an illeist.
---L.
Either by pronoun or by name. Originally coined as a nonce-word by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from the Latin pronoun ille, he, that man, to mean someone who uses the third person pronoun excessively, but later contracted to using it for oneself and expanded to also using one's own name. Which is something Bob Dole will not stand for. The person who does it is an illeist.
---L.
