2007-04-19 13:02:27 · 3 answers · asked by runner1 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Etc.: A Review of General Semantics
1957
By the eighteenth century, however, thou was gone from ordinary speech. ... high or low; as was "Thee".
Even the Society of Friends do not use the terms much,
and if so, only within family or with others who do such. "Thou" is hardly used, even on a Quaker College campus one will not hear this simple English.
Quaker Thee and Its History, by Ezra Kempton Maxfield, American Speech, Sept., 1926, pp. 638-44; Quaker Thou and Thee
2007-04-19 14:11:18 · answer #1 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we quit reading the bible.
2007-04-19 23:37:18 · answer #2 · answered by bnbn_e2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at about the 1900"s..................where was you at???!! lol jus kidding.........but yeah they stopped that around 1990's.................or at least i think so!
2007-04-19 20:07:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋