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| Topic | "Aisle" and "isle" are proof that silent letters are crap... |
| Zeus 05/17/21 8:11:30 PM #24: | SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Thee was the common form and You was the sophisticated form of addressing someone. Eventually Thee fell out of use and now it sounds like the more fancy word. Well, it was thou and thee, not just thee. For example, it would be "Thou must wear pants in a bakery", whereas you'd say "The baker gave thee a cake" (or, to use a more famous example, "Get thee to a nunnery"). Then it would be, "Can I have a slice of thine cake?" In short, "you" is a lot simpler because it's one thing vs using "thou" and "thee," then the possessive form is more intuitive. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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