Re: thorn vs. y or th, eth and other similar letters/signs

"Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
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Michael Maxwell wrote:
> This is getting rather far from Unicode, but:
> Philippe Verdy wrote:
>   
>>   2nd sing.       | Thou  | Thee  | Yourself??  | Your?? | Yours?? |
>>     
> Should be:
>     2nd sing.       | Thou  | Thee   | thyself        | thy       | thine |
> I believe there was some variability wrt thy vs. thine--in the sense that 'thine' may have been (at one point? in some dialects?) the form used before a vowel-initial word, as was 'mine' (and as 'an' still is).
>   
Certainly was.  "To thine own self be true..."

~mark
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