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"You" is grammatically plural as well, its singular form is/was "thou". But now everyone sees it as a valid pronoun to refer to a single person.
by progval 7y ago
"You" is grammatically plural as well, its singular form is/was "thou". But now everyone sees it as a valid pronoun to refer to a single person.
- jMyles 7y agoI always use y'all for second person plural.
- progval 7y agoMaybe one day, "y'all" will take the place of "you" as both singular and plural pronoun
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoWhere once the singular was thee and thou forms, you and they developed singular use in parallel with each other hundreds of years ago. For some reason, presumably connected with its use as non-gendered pronoun, there's only fuss made about they.