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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: Second person singular
Message-ID: <1156@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 09:41:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 09:41:07 1985
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> > I know several Philadelphia-area Quaker families who use
> > "plain speech" when addressing family members.  The nominative
> > of the second person singular, among them, is "thee," as in,
> > "Ben, if thee doesn't stop that, I'm going to hit thee."
> > 
> > 	Dennis Ritchie
 
> Incidentally, I have heard "thee's", usually in contexts like "Thee's
> going to be quite surprised one of these days!"
>  
> Elizabeth Hanes Perry                        

Fascinating--the pronoun has been retained in both these instances,
but the declension ("thou"=subject, "thee"=object) has been lost.
And in the face of a grammatically irreproachable model (the Bible).
If this sloppier usage is real, Mr. Ritchie, how does thou explain it?
If it's sloppy reporting, Ms. Perry, shame on thee.
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