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Whatever Happened to "Thou"?

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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The Meaning of Thou in the Bible

Vow eventually lost its status as an to day we think of thou as being formal. It's elevated language that's nearly defunct, except for a few places. One of them is the bible. At the time the bible was written in english, translated a thou was already kind of archaic at the time. And so then i things like bible translations,. they don't change very often, so it wasn't until sor tof the late 19 forties, early 19 fifties that the bible got up dated. In the king james version, they took out most instances of thou, except they kept it when they're referring to god. They kept thafor for god. For some

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