Alan,

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 08:06:24 +0100, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> >One part of this is IMO that the English language doesn't
> >provide (to my knowledge) an easy way to distinguish
> >between "you" (singular) and "you" (plural).
> 
> My reaction is to say "yes it does", but the singular has dropped out of use.
> 
> The singular for you is "thou", as used in the Bible, and the plural is "you".

Thou art correct, sir!  :-)  But "nobody" uses it any more, rather like saying "five and twenty" instead of "twenty five", but when I was 
at school some of the older teachers did say numbers like that.  I don't know when "thou" died out, but I'd guess about the middle 1800s.  

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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