Thee and Thou/Friends

[Laurence Horn]

>The use of thee in the nominative is also typical of the SW English
>pattern.  I wonder how popular 17c. Quaker religion was in that area--I
>know that the North was a stronghold, and William Penn came from SE
>Bucks (JUST inside the SW dialct area).  The N English nominative form
>is tha, which in Yorkshire at any rate = thy.

cf. Mellors in _Lady Chatterley's Lover_.  He's who I learned my "tha"s from.

>   Shetland/Orkney have the
>expected thoo/du.
>
>Paul Johnston