Re: "two be"
| From: | Joe Hill <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 31, 2001, 14:39 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Padraic Brown" <agricola@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: "two be"
> Am 30.12.01, Patrick Dunn yscrifef:
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> > There's also one modern dialect of English that uses "thee" as a subject
> > pronoun.
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> I thought that was a religious denomination? Well, I guess if
> it's a speech community, then it would be a dialect as well!
>
I think you'll find it is "tha'" /th@/ , with the Schwa leaning towards 'a'.
It's Derived from Thou.