Point of clarification and explanation of usage:

I am, tthou art;, me, thee; mine, thine; my, thy.

I must add my agreement with Rick and Bill. I have nearly twenty years formal teaching experience. I can't get a job though because a school can hire two college grads for what they would have to pay me.

In those few months when I am fortunate enough to have a real job, I read student tests, grade school and high school. Some papers are great, some are awful, most are mediocre. But what is worse is the poorly worded quiestions and the horrible choice of passages used to test our young.

Two years ago I was asked to edit the test booklets for a state that shall remain nameless. It should have been a simple proofing job. However, some ed. official had gotten there first and miscorrected all of the quotations, missed most of the typos, and scrawled across a passage about the popularity of a well known youthful wizard, "NO HARRY POTTER!"

Vernacular is fine, but not at the cost of effective communication -- Tom