Word: thees
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...kind of saucy flippancy. When he banishes Bolingbroke and Mowbray from the realm, it is not so much with imperial ire as petulant impatience. He has already gained in gravity when he later drops to the ground and fondles the soil of England: "Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hands, Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs...
...Maddocks sounds like the Miss Fidditch of the 1600s who was constantly admonishing her school charges not to use that "vulgar" word you, but rather the "correct" thee, thou, thy and thine. Languages have always changed, such change is neither "healthy" nor "unhealthy," and neither the admonitions of a Miss Fidditch nor a Melvin Maddocks will do very much to affect our use of that magnificent and mysterious thing we call language...
Radcliffe, now we rise to greet thee...
Alma Mater, hail to thee...
...been almost thee years since Eugene McCarthy's stunning victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, but as he walked into a small meeting room at the Parker House yesterday morning, he seemed to have changed very little...