Re: curses & insults

John Cowan wrote:
> English had this for a while, too, using the old 2sg pronouns for
> insult:
>
>         I 'thou' thee, thou traitor!
One Quaker, in his memoirs, noted the abuse he'd received on account of
thouing everyone (the Quakers did not believe in using the singular
"you", they were very egalitarian).  He'd wrote about being beaten for
thouing someone, and the person doing the beating shouted "Thou'st thou
me, thou ill-bred clown?", he then noted "As if his breeding lay in
using you to a singular".

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