Fine. I'll start a new thread.

In re: ``Thou'' versus ``You''

``Thou'' and ``You'' are the same word. Back in the days before English settled on the Roman alphabet, the two sounds we now consider ``th'' sounds were written using thorns and eths, the former being the non-voiced interdental central oral fricative, the latter being the voiced. When the Roman alphabet started to be in common use, typesetters had no letter to represent either of these sounds. For whatever reason, they were often replaced with the Roman letter ``Y'', but were still pronounced as originally. I've heard reports that this was due to their similar shapes, but I've not seen that in evidence. Over time, those sounds became represented by the diphthong ``th''. Over more time, the clear distinction between words with a ``Y'' and words with a thorn or eth were often lost. Some of the words reverted to using ``th'' (e.g. ``Ye'' vs. ``The''). Others retained the ``Y'' and changed their pronunciation (e.g. ``Thou'' vs. ``You'').