Re: "two be"
| From: | Dan Jones <dan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 1, 2002, 18:17 |
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Padraic Brown escreva:
>Am 30.12.01, Steven W. Lytle yscrifef:
>
> > thou didst
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>There are modern dialects of English that use thou (either
>as /Daw/ or /Da:/. The usual verb form used is 3rd s., as
>far as I'm able to tell.
In Warwickshire/West Midlands English, -st seems to still be hanging on, as
in "tha cost" etc, although in fast speech, the -t tends to be lost.
Dan
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semo la flamma, semo la casea
semo la tuta, semo la cambea
We are the spark, we are the flame
We are the people, we are the change
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