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Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Friday, October 24, 2003, 16:05
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". --And.

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