Thread:Cecelia Cachemira/@comment-26419300-20150928001952

Paragraph two of the Wikipedia article to which you referred says:


 * Originally, thou was simply the singular counterpart to the plural pronoun ye, derived from an ancient Indo-European root. Following a process found in other Indo-European languages, thou was later used to express intimacy, familiarity or even disrespect, while another pronoun, you, the oblique/objective form of ye, was used for formal circumstances.

It is not always a number distinction, in fact, it was Tyndale who really popularized that idea. --Pfifltrigg Pi (talk) 00:19, September 28, 2015 (UTC) 