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PostThu Dec 25, 2014 2:49 pm 
A guide to navigating perilous Christmas linguistics
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Ye We don't sing "O come, all you faithful" because, at the time the song was written, they still sometimes used ye for the subject for the second person plural. E.g: I know you, and ye know me. (You will sometimes see ye in the object position in cases such as "Johnny, we hardly knew ye" — but that's a nonstandard dialectal form.) The verb is conjugated the same as ever. Ye was already on the way out by Shakespeare's time.

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PostFri Dec 26, 2014 11:29 am 
"Gloria in eggshells this day-oh" As a child, my Latin was rudimentary.

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