Re: Word used more than once

caeruleancentaur wrote:
> You misunderstand my question.  I understand the difference
> between "thou" and "you," but the Quakers don't use "thou."  I'm
> wondering why they use "thee" for the subject instead of "thou."  As
> far as I know, the Quakers never addressed anybody as "thou."
Probably for the same reason Standard English lost the historic
nominative "ye", preserving the object "you".  And, for that reason, why
some dialects use "them" instead of "they" or "me" instead of "I" and so
on.  The object form seems to be the one to win out when case is lost in
English pronouns.

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