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Subject: Thou, you, and youse error
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Date: Thu, 22-Dec-83 13:39:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 22 13:39:27 1983
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Oops! alice!danny writes:

   Can you supply some documentation for your claim about the way
   in which thou, you, and youse were used in Elizabethan English?
   Thank you.

I cannot.  Reference to the Oxford English Dictionary reveals
this to be an error.  "You" was used to a superior and "thou"
was used to an equal or inferior.  In some dialects, thou
survives as an intimate pronoun or as one used from parent to
child.

Sorry 'bout that.
				Randolph Fritz