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A curious fact concerning English Second Person Pronouns

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 15:13
Consider this

	singular	plural
Nom	thou		ye
Acc	thee		you

In each word the onset gives number and the coda gives case. But the
meanings of the case endings are reversed between the numbers!

Accusative = (ee xor plural)

Pete

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