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From: Peter Hullah <Peter.Hullah@eurocontrol.fr>
Subject: Re: Ye (was Re: You, Youse, ...All Y'all)
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Ross Burgess wrote:
> 
> Certain British dialects still keep the old second person, but
> generally seem to have lost "thou" and just use "thee" for both
> subject and object.

I would have reckoned that this isn't the case:

"Th'art" (as in "Th'art a daft 'ap'orth") seems to me to stem from 
"Thou art" rather than "Thee art" where the "ee" would be more likely 
to have been retained givin "Thee'rt"

Pete

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