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    This document discusses the historical usage of the pronouns "thou" and "you" in English. It provides an example from 1560s court records where one Nicoll Dixson was accused of sheep stealing. The court records illustrate that the terms were not used uniformly - higher status individuals like Masters Antony and Ratcliff referred to the lower status Roger Dunn using "thou" rather than "you". This suggests there may have been social rules governing the appropriate contexts to use each pronoun.

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    This document discusses the historical usage of the pronouns "thou" and "you" in English. It provides an example from 1560s court records where one Nicoll Dixson was accused of sheep stealing. The court records illustrate that the terms were not used uniformly - higher status individuals like Masters Antony and Ratcliff referred to the lower status Roger Dunn using "thou" rather than "you". This suggests there may have been social rules governing the appropriate contexts to use each pronoun.

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    This document discusses the historical usage of the pronouns "thou" and "you" in English. It provides an example from 1560s court records where one Nicoll Dixson was accused of sheep stealing. The court records illustrate that the terms were not used uniformly - higher status individuals like Masters Antony and Ratcliff referred to the lower status Roger Dunn using "thou" rather than "you". This suggests there may have been social rules governing the appropriate contexts to use each pronoun.

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    Attempts to ‘anglicize’ foreign loans will have helped the population to come to

    terms with the greatly expanding vocabulary.


    https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/work/etexts/ca
    w1604w_removed.htm
    https://www.bl.uk/collect
    ion-items/robert-cawdre
    ys-a-table-alphabeticall

    domicelles
    adustion
    cibaries
    to pese thwite
    Robert Cawdrey’s 1604 Table Alphabeticall of
    Hard Usual English Words
    prefix
    suffix
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    THOU - YOU
    Hunstonworth is a village
    in the Durham area of
    north-east England. In the
    1560s there was a court
    case in which one Nicoll
    Dixson was accused of
    stealing sheep. Hope
    (1994) uses part of the
    court witness reports to
    illustrate a common usage
    of thou and you.
    The exchange here involves Masters Antony and
    Ratcliff, who are relatively high-class people,
    and the lower-class Roger Dunn. Note in passing
    the use of will (woll) to mean ‘wish’ (as
    discussed in 16.4). But particularly notice who
    uses you, who thou and to whom. Can you
    establish a possible ‘rule of use’?1
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    JS6xCW7LPrE&ab_channel=TheLi
    nguisticsChannel

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