Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. for God)

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> > cg /dZ/
>
> Interesting digraph. Looks nearly Maggelish :))
It's Old English:  bricg = modern "bridge".

> (like it probably did in English since they borrowed "they" from Norse, the
> original form - h=EDe/h=E9o - being virtually identical to the singular form),
Curiously, the native form *hem* survived in the object pronoun, but went under
ground, appearing in written form as "'em" in representations of dialogue.
It is a natural part of spoken English, though.

> In French it's nearly the
> same, except that the article is replaced by the demonstrative 'ce', which per
> se doesn't really demonstrate much ;)))
As I have been saying, "ce" has moved into the definite article slot, replacing
"le" which has become the semantically null article.

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