Re: You/thou (was Re: Old Norse)

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Raymond Brown wrote:

>At 5:04 pm +0000 19/6/00, Oskar Gudlaugsson wrote:
>>Ray wrote:
>>
>>>'thou' etc still survives as colloquial 2nd pers. singular (familiar, but
>>>not by any means derogatory) in the north of England to the present day.
>>
>>With its own verbal conjugation (thou art, thou hast), and case declension
>>(thou; thee; thy; thine) as well?
>
>Cases - definitely yes (tho pronounced according to local dialect).
>
>I believe, tho not 100%, that they are now used colloquially with 3rd sing.
>of verbs.
That's what I do!

Padraic.

>Ray.