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Thank thou or Thank thee
politeness
grammatical-case
early-modern-english
shakespeare
What's an early modern English excalmation roughly meaning "raise the roof!"?
idioms
translation
literature
early-modern-english
exclamations
What were nightmares called before "nightmare" was used in that sense?
etymology
history
early-modern-english
old-english
middle-english
How do you conjugate Early Modern English verbs (other than present tense)?
verbs
tenses
suffixes
early-modern-english
conjugation
What is the grammatical construction in “Be but sworn”?
semantics
early-modern-english
syntactic-analysis
shakespeare
…down the primrose path
etymology
phrase-origin
early-modern-english
shakespeare
First use of "jack-o'-Lantern” in reference to the Carved-Pumpkin?
etymology
names
early-modern-english
halloween
How Was "Feast" Pronounced in Early Modern English?
phonetics
early-modern-english
What does "thy" mean?
meaning
pronouns
dialects
early-modern-english
thou-thee-thy
How is "ought" used in this King James Bible verse?
meaning
early-modern-english
Rhyming conventions of Early Modern English
pronunciation
terminology
early-modern-english
rhymes
Has the verb "to import me" ever been commonly used in English the way "to concern me" is in the phrase "It does not concern me"?
etymology
latin
early-modern-english
middle-english
predicate-frames
How obsolete is the word "overmorrow"?
early-modern-english
What is the difference between "thee" and "thou"?
pronouns
personal-pronouns
early-modern-english
thou-thee-thy
How and why have some words changed to a complete opposite?
etymology
early-modern-english
What animal is a “weefil”?
typography
early-modern-english
image-identification
Why "the powers that be"?
etymology
idioms
early-modern-english
be
conjugation
What were the rules for capitalising nouns in the 17th and 18th centuries?
capitalization
early-modern-english
typography
seventeenth-century-english
eighteenth-century-english
Is that an "r" in "worship" in a text from 1591?
writing
early-modern-english
transliteration
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