I haven't been paying much attention to this thread, but has anybody brought up the Souther US version: Y'all - singular All y'all - plural Richard Prosser wrote: > And then there's the Kiwi version - "you" for singular, "youse" for > plural. (As in "Youse guys going down the pub?") > > RP > > On 02/08/06, Howard Winter wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> >> -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist