Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 11 days ago11 years agoi.postimg.ccimagemessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1527arrow-down114
arrow-up1513arrow-down1image11 years agoi.postimg.ccBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoI believe I read somewhere that the singular for “they” used to be “thy”, but that makes language sound terribly old. Doubt it’ll get picked up in the mainstream
minus-squarezagaberoo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 days ago‘Thy’ is the disused informal ‘your’. There’s ‘thou’/‘thee’ but that’s still second-person.
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoInteresting! Do you have any etymological sources that go into this more? I’d be curious to learn
minus-squareAnimalsDream@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoThis looks like an alright starting place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English
I believe I read somewhere that the singular for “they” used to be “thy”, but that makes language sound terribly old. Doubt it’ll get picked up in the mainstream
‘Thy’ is the disused informal ‘your’. There’s ‘thou’/‘thee’ but that’s still second-person.
Interesting! Do you have any etymological sources that go into this more? I’d be curious to learn
This looks like an alright starting place:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English