Y'all and No?
Natalie Maynor
maynor at CS.MSSTATE.EDU
Thu Mar 29 23:30:00 UTC 2001
> I guess I was thinking
> that if "thou" was nominative and "thee" accusative, "you" and "ye"
> OUGHT to be parallel, but nooooo.
I always remember that they were opposite rather than parallel, but then
I have to stop and think to remember which was which. Maybe I'll store
that Biblical passage in my head as a reminder -- even though the KJ Bible
was published around the time those case distinctions were falling apart.
--Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)
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