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

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 10:01:33 CST

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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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