RE: Redneck step of the day...

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Pinkham, Jim wrote: 
 
> Interesting question, Madelyn. I immediately thought of "thee" and
> "thou," once differentiating the informal and formal "you", but that
> doesn't help on the plural side. As it happens, someone else has been
> pondering, too:
> http://linguistlessons.blogspot.com/2008/08/2nd-person-plural.html. I
> turned to Wikipedia, too, and the author of that article maintains
that
> "ye" is the archaic second person plural,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person. Interestingly, it
also
> references "yinz" as second person plural in some regional dialects. I
> don't think that's come up in our discussion yet.

You, Madelyn, and Robert are all slightly confused. English isn't in
need of a second person _plural_ pronoun; it has always had a perfectly
good one -- you (evolved from ye). 

The problem is that the second person _singular_ pronoun, thou, fell out
of favor, and now you is used for both singular and plural. But it's a
pretender as the singular, and should return to its rightful place as
the plural. 

Search thine hear and see if thou art with me. :-)


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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