
Episode 55: To Be or Not To Be
The History of English Podcast
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The Verb to Go in Modern English
In early middle english, if you wanted to say, we are, you might say, we sindon in the south, and we aren in the north. But as i noted, that word sinden slowly died out as arun spread around the island. By the 13 hundred singdon was pretty much gone, and weren evolved into our modern plural form, r. So by the time of shakespeare and the king james's bible, english had the singular form thou art and the plural form u r. Both art and r were derived from the same indo european and germanic root word,. but r was really the viking form, and art was the ang
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