Template talk:Early Modern English personal pronouns (table)

Thy/thine vs my/mine

The text says that otherwise (i.e., after Chaucer's time), the distinction between thy and thine is the same as between my and mine. I thought that the distinction between thy and thine always followed my and mine. Until Chaucer, both followed the vowel-rule and subsequently both follow the attributive/predicative rule. If that is correct, I'd propose the text

The distinction between thy and thine corresponds to that between my and mine. Principally, the first is attributive (my/thy goods,) and the second predicative (they are mine/thine). However, in a deliberately archaic style, the forms with /n/ are also used before words beginning with a vowel sound (mine/thine eyes.) This practice is irregularly followed in the King James Bible, but is more regular in earlier literature, such as the Early Modern English texts of Geoffrey Chaucer.

LachlanA (talk) 21:44, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

links don't link

the links don't work. I don't use this format, and don't see what's wrong with them. kwami (talk) 13:10, 27 February 2009 (UTC)