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It might be helpful to bring back use of 'thou' and 'thee'
[Chicago Final Edition]
Chicago Tribune - Chicago, Ill.
Author: Nathan Bierma, Special to the Tribune
Date: Oct 26, 2005
Start Page: 7
Section: Tempo
Text Word Count: 720
Abstract (Document Summary)

A. In the late 1400s, English had a second person pronoun system that worked this way: "Thou" was the singular subject ("Thou must ..."), "thee" the singular object ("... for thee"), "ye" the plural subject and "you" the plural object.

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