Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad
| From: | Joe <joe@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 15:27 |
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
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.