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From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Second Person Plural
Message-ID: <190@kepler.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 18:03:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 18:03:30 1985
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Actually English *does* have a second person plural: it's "you."

What we're missing is a second person singular.  We used to have a
singular and "familiar" second person pronoun, but it fell into disuse
in favor of the plural and formal form.

It was "thee."

-- 
Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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