https://thehistoricallinguistchannel.com/they-them-and-theirs-the-non-english-pronouns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=they-them-and-theirs-the-non-english-pronouns Tue, 04 May 2021 22:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 https://thehistoricallinguistchannel.com/they-them-and-theirs-the-non-english-pronouns/#comment-7262 Tue, 04 May 2021 22:57:29 +0000 https://thehistoricallinguistchannel.com/?p=556#comment-7262 Not sure I fully agree here, all pronouns are difficult to change and most basic words of English such as egg, eye, husband etc would have been used in Old English replacing certain Old English words with Old Nose but not replacing others of equal value would he extremely strange and why only certain basic words? A more plausible explanation is Northern and Midland English used different pronouns and words and actually the North and Midlands did in their dialects with ‘Arun’ used as opposed to Southern English for ‘to be’ which became ‘are’ not used in the south. This is found also in Northern dialects before Vikings were there after all little in northern and Midland dialects were written down. So assuming these come from Old Norse may not be true and northern and midland English already had unique dialectual features from a proto Scandinavian form of English in north rather than to do with Vikings per se. In fact English identity is strongest where Angles were.

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