The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57955   Message #916675
Posted By: InOBU
23-Mar-03 - 06:33 PM
Thread Name: Cut-and-Paste Reminder
Subject: RE: Cut-and-Paste Reminder
Hi Nigel: Quaker plain speach lost much of the origonal grammer in the mid nineteenth century. Mostly thee and thy used, thou very seldom, for example older Quakes when I was a kid would say, "thee would say", rather than "thou wouldst say" Living english.
CHeers
Larry looking pasty