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Re: A curious fact concerning English Second Person Pronouns

From:Elliott Lash <erelion12@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 6, 2006, 15:59
This is sort of like certain declensions of nouns in
Old French:

fiz "son"

       singular        plural
Nomin.      fiz          fil
Oblique     fil          fiz

-elliott

--- Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>
wrote:

> 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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