Reader Rachel Rosencrantz writes:
When I was working at the Renaissance Faire (http://www.renfaire.com/) before the faire opened we took a class on language (so we could sound appropriately Elizabethan). The whole thou and you [thing] came up . . . .
However, we were further instructed that even though our customers would properly be addressed as “you” we should use thee/thou with them because to the unknowledgeable faire goer thee/thou has a more “archaic” feel and it will work better, even though technically it would be incorrect.
Heh, I guess business is business. And a defense of “Your Honor, I only tried to kiss that Faire worker because she called me ‘thou'” would probably (and rightly) fail . . . .
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