There's the thou/thee/thy/thine set and the you/ye/your/yours set .
Originally singular versus plural, then familiar versus formal. When
egalitarianism came in, the Quakers went with thee for both
singular and plural (and both nominative and accusative case); the
rest of us went with you.
I wasn't on Arachne then, but the only old English word for "you" I
can come up
with is "thou". I'm not a native English speaker though, so maybe there's
another one.
Weronika
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:36:48PM -0400, Tatdlace wrote:
Hello all,
Some time ago, years maybe, there was a discussion of
language and I remember, or at least I think I remember
someone mentioning that English has another very old
and not used expression or word for "you". I remember
thinking at the time that I should remember the word
but it was odd and my 'rememberer' works by association.
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