Re: USAGE: 2nd pers. pron. for God

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> You'd think so, but in my experience they typically latch
> onto one of the archaic singular verb endings, -(e)st or
> -(e)th, and use that consistently for their superhigh
> register.
Debbie Reynolds to Eddie Fisher:  "Whither thou goest, I goest too."
(There are, quelle horreur, some 44 instances of "I goest" in Google,
and a good third of them are in explicitly religious language, the
others being ironic.)

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