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The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

Posted Feb 20, 2011 21:01 UTC (Sun) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)
In reply to: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach by paulj
Parent article: The Ada Initiative takes a different approach

Thanks for the correction. Here in the U.S. we don't hear "ye" or "thee" or "thou" very much, so it's easy to get them wrong. To add to the confusion, "ye" is more often used (mistakenly) in place of "the" in names like "Ye Olde Towne Square" simply because an older version of the alphabet used a symbol for "th" which looks rather like a modern "y".

Wikipedia has a table of English personal pronoun forms, including "thou"/"ye" and "thee"/"you", for those who, like myself, tend to mix them up: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou#Declension>.

Anyway, it's nice to know that these older forms are still in use elsewhere in the world. I thought they'd died out long ago.


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