Timeline for Does English use the word ‘thou’ in any situations nowadays?
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| Mar 4, 2020 at 16:55 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The body of the question clarifies which lexeme is intended; the tag 'personal pronoun' makes this an inappropriate answer. | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 16:29 | comment | added | T.E.D. | I suppose I'd have to agree though that there's some point in the spectrum between "arguable" and "Miss Emily Litella" where an answer probably becomes not an answer. | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 16:22 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @tchrist - Oh I totally agree with you that the answer is wrong because they are completely different words (that just happen to be spelled the same). I'm just not sure being a wrong answer is the same thing as not being an answer at all. | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 15:51 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @T.E.D. You're right. It has to do with what a "word" "is", two rather challenging things to pin down. The asker wanted to know about the pronoun thou, which begins with the same consonant /ð/ as in this and that and there and other such purely grammatical/functional words, not with the same /θ/ as begin lexical/non-grammatical words like thirty and thousand and thistle. They aren’t the same word unless by "word" you mean space-separated lexeme in print rather than something someone says, and by "consonant" you mean individual grapheme in print again rather than a spoken sound. | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 14:33 | comment | added | T.E.D. | @tchrist - You'd know the site standards better than I, but I think there's an important disctinction between a post that is Not An Answer, and a post that is a wrong answer (this post being one of the latter). | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 10:28 | comment | added | TRiG | There's a difference between the voiced and unvoiced th. And the same remark is made in comments on the question, as a joke, referring to thou as an abbreviation of thousand. As @tchrist says, it's a completely different and unrelated word. | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 7:38 | history | edited | Criggie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
As per request, remove quotes.
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| Mar 4, 2020 at 7:38 | comment | added | Criggie | @tchrist fair enough - I couldn't hear a difference between thou and thou as written. Edited now. Also, this does address the question in the title as asked. | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 3:18 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | This is Not An Answer because that's not the same word at all; it isn't even pronounced the same way! And pretty-please-with-sugar-on-it don't use code markdown here, especially for noncode. | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 3:12 | history | answered | Criggie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |