Re: You/thou (was Re: Old Norse)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 21, 2000, 11:28 |
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At 18:28 20.6.2000 -0700, Marcus Smith wrote:
> >Hey, if the King James Bible (or Douay-Rheims if you're Catholic) was good
> >enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me.
>
>That's right, and if Elizabethan English was good enough for Jesus, it's good
>enough for the entire world. ;-)
Hmm. Wonder: the present spelling would make more sense in a Lizzian
pronunciation than in a modern, wouldn't it?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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