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The Week: Tis the Season for Archaic English
http://theweek.com/article/index/273732/tis-the-season-for-archaic-english-snip-
'Tis the season to use old-fashioned English!
"O come, all ye faithful..."
"Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child..."
"Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning…"
The holidays are for old carols, old scripture readings, and various emulations of merry olde England. This makes it a dangerous season.
Dangerous? Yes. There are conjugation accidents all over the place. People just don't know how to handle the ye and thee and thou, the –est and –eth. They put the wrong thing in the wrong place, and the next thing thou knowest, someone getteth hurt.
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