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".

--And.

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