Re: thorn vs. y or th, eth and other similar letters/signs
"Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
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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