Origin & Evolution of Languages

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/15/99 8:31:53 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
stevegus at aye.net writes:

<< Curious, how this got turned almost exactly on its head.  To the extent that
 "thou" is still understood, it is a form of address restricted to Exalted
Personages, like God, or Richard III, or the Mighty Thor. >>

-- oddly enough, God was usually addressed in the familiar form as well.  You
certainly wouldn't call the King "thee", though.