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Is this the whole story though? I am a Yorkshireman (northern county in England) and we still colloquially use "thee" and "thou", (the latter more normally pro
by Wildgoose 9y ago
Is this the whole story though? I am a Yorkshireman (northern county in England) and we still colloquially use "thee" and "thou", (the latter more normally pronounced "tha").
"Judge not, lest thee be judged" would fit with the initial "y" being a thorn character.
English orthography has retained a lot of history!
- kwhitefoot 9y agoUnless the you in question was plural. See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thee https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thee.