Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

----- Original Message -----
From: "And Rosta" <a.rosta@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad


> John:
> > michael poxon scripsit:
> > > Forms like "thee are" and "thee were" sound weird, at least to me.
> >
> > They're found in traditional dialect in the south-east of England, and
> > also in old-fashioned (now basically extinct) Quaker plain speech.
>
> I haven't encountered evidence of survival of trad dialect in the SE,
> but round my neck of the woods (Lancashire, that is; not London) it
> is "Thou is".
Methinks he meant the northeast.

> --And.
>