Re: "two be"
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 31, 2001, 14:43 |
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Joe Hill wrote:
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> > Am 30.12.01, Christian Thalmann yscrifef:
> >
> > > --- In conlang@y..., Padraic Brown <agricola@W...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ah, thou did go to town yesterday.
> > >
> > > Thou knowst not thy grammar! It's "thou didst". ;-)
> >
> > Oh, thou just wants to throw archaic grammar at me! :)
> >
>
> I love Archaic Grammar. Thou likest it not? Dost thee find it offensive?
> Thine own grammar is lacking.
I like Archaic Grammar, too. I doe, how evre, not like it when people
pronounce `dost' as `daust'* (rhymes with `cost') rather than `dust'
(/dAst/ in my dialect, /dVst/ in most others, rhymes with `lust').
*Okay, so that word would probably be read as /dO:st/ even here... but I
was at a lost of else to say your dialect's `short o'... and I can think
of so many words where <au> makes a short o...
Tristan