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Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

The Problem With You

Oct 14, 2022
29:13

English used to have a more or less typical array of second person pronouns, with thou and thee for the singular — subject and object cases, respectively — and ye and you for the plural. So what happened? John explains.



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