Re: "two be"

Stephen Mulraney escreva:
>Hi Dan
>
>I'm confused... do you mean that the -st of the old verb (e.g. didST)
>remains? Does your example 'tha cost' mean 'that cost' ('that' being
>a pronoun)? Or are you just making a comment on phonetics?
Ooops, my bad, I didn't make it clear enough. "tha cost" is "you can" or
"thou canst", showing the remaining of the 2s termination -st. "Tha cost"
also shows a fairly common WM change of a > o before n.

>I lived in Leamington for a couple of years but don't recall hearing
>any shade of 'thou' in speech... but then again I mightn't have noticed
>it without expecting it ;)
It's quite rural, and used a bit further north than Leamington, more
Coventry/Brum etc.

Dan

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