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Old 14th Dec 2021, 17:03
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beardy
 
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Originally Posted by langleybaston
Is there a verb to theese?
Aye, there is, but it is to 'thee' ie to call someone thee (the familiar form of the formal thou) and was used to economise on the word count by my wife's grandfather, a rather bluff man, to reprimand an over familiar farm hand.

A bit like Shakespeare really turning nouns into verbs and generally playing with and expanding our language

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