I have always enjoyed the insult "I thou thee thou traitor" offered to Sir Walter Raleigh, presumably just before he was executed. There is a semi-plausible ex

I have always enjoyed the insult "I thou thee thou traitor" offered to Sir Walter Raleigh, presumably just before he was executed. There is a semi-plausible explanation of how thou died out in England https://www.quora.com/English-language-Why-did-people-stop-using-thee-thou-hath-shalt-thy-etc-in-writing https://www.quora.com/English-language-Why-did-people-stop-u... but it leaves open the question why it persists in other languages.