Mastodawn

Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us

Wit, unker, git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy

Tales of love and adventure from 1,000 years ago reveal a dazzling range of now-extinct English pronouns. They capture something unique about how people once thought about "two-ness".

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huijzer 19h ago

Also sad is the fact that “you” is now used for “thee” and “thou” and such. The older variants could distinguish between “you” plural and “you” singular

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EvsCB

Forms of it persists in regional dialects, its not super common anymore but in Yorkshire I still here "dees" and "thas", "yous" also persist as another form of the plural you.