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==Archaic second person forms== Historically, [[Middle English]] and [[Early Modern English]] retained the [[TβV distinction]]; the [[Grammatical person|second person pronoun]] had separate singular/familiar and plural/formal forms with subject and object forms of both. In standard modern forms of English, all second person forms have been reduced to simply "you". These forms are still retained (sometimes partially) in some dialects of [[English language in Northern England|Northern English]], [[Scottish English]], and in the [[Scots language]], a Germanic language closely related to English which diverged from it during the Early Modern period. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Singular/familiar subject <br>pronoun ! Singular/familiar object <br>pronoun |- align=center | [[thou]] | thee |- |} {| class="wikitable" |- ! Plural/formal subject <br>pronoun ! Plural/formal object <br>pronoun |- align=center | [[Ye (pronoun)|ye]] | you |- |}
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