Is "like myself" correct?

English as a Second Language
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Americans write math, British speakers like myself write maths.

Is “like myself” correct? Or should it be “like me”?

Thanks

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In usage I hear both, but “like me” is far more common. “Like myself” seems overly formal.

Grammatically, I am guessing. I think “like me/myself” is prepositional. As an object of a verb, you would use “me”. I’m thinking that the object of a preposition would be the same.

By the way, I never heard the word “maths” until I was in my 40s and saw people online using it. It still sounds strange to me. However, Americans always use plural when it’s written fully as “mathematics”.

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