User:Bruce/"Thou" and "thee" at Sutherland: Difference between revisions
From Reconciling understandings of Scripture and Science
Jump to navigationJump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
=="Thou" at Sutherland== | =="Thou" at Sutherland== | ||
Brother Vic and Sister Annie Shane were baptised as members of Sutherland Ecclesia in the mid 1950's when I was small child. They were also close neighbours, and "Aunty Ann" was my other mother. She was from Yorkshire, and grew up with the singular forms of English, but rarely used them because she had been taught that they were too informal and supposedly "uneducated". So I treasure moments when her pronouns lapsed into the intimate forms — ''"Ah, th'art a rum 'un, Bruce!"'' When I was older and studied the history of English I asked her if she used "thou" and "thee" with other children when she was young. Her reply was "Oh yes! | Brother Vic and Sister Annie Shane were baptised as members of Sutherland Ecclesia in the mid 1950's when I was small child. They were also close neighbours, and "Aunty Ann" was my other mother. She was from Yorkshire, and grew up with the singular forms of English, but rarely used them because she had been taught that they were too informal and supposedly "uneducated". So I treasure moments when her pronouns lapsed into the intimate forms — ''"Ah, th'art a rum 'un, Bruce!"'' When I was older and studied the history of English I asked her if she used "thou" and "thee" with other children when she was young. Her reply was "Oh yes! {{3dots}} we were never allowed to, mind!" | ||
Revision as of 17:27, 24 October 2023
"Thou" at Sutherland
Brother Vic and Sister Annie Shane were baptised as members of Sutherland Ecclesia in the mid 1950's when I was small child. They were also close neighbours, and "Aunty Ann" was my other mother. She was from Yorkshire, and grew up with the singular forms of English, but rarely used them because she had been taught that they were too informal and supposedly "uneducated". So I treasure moments when her pronouns lapsed into the intimate forms — "Ah, th'art a rum 'un, Bruce!" When I was older and studied the history of English I asked her if she used "thou" and "thee" with other children when she was young. Her reply was "Oh yes! . . . we were never allowed to, mind!"
