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Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 15:27
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad


> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:50:53PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > > Tristan McLeay scripsit: > > > I was under the impression that it was 'thou wert'? > > > > In the 17th century, maybe. Modern thou-dialects use "was". > > That includes IB English. > > Are there any modern thou-dialects in the real world? I know > there are thee-dialects, which take the you-form of the verb > ("thee are", "thee were", etc.).
Yorkshire. Of course, I think that's phsing out now, but it shouldn't be fully gone for a good twenty or thirty years.