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Interesting, and are those used as the informal you? Or in reference to singular?
by eyphka 3y ago
Interesting, and are those used as the informal you? Or in reference to singular?
- helsinkiandrew 3y agoI think Thee would be for family, friends, or someone of equal social status and thou is more formal (but much less used now - only as tha: “tha's gonna get it“).
- BobaFloutist 3y agoThat's fascinating , because it's originally a subject/object divide (equivalent to he/him)
- jameshart 3y agoDefinitely a formal/informal distinction. Old Yorkshire phrase for telling children to mind who they address as 'thee / tha': "Don't thee tha them as thas thee" - kind of a similar sense as 'mind your Ps and Qs'.