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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: jbe who wrote (2420)5/2/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
Jbe:

My computer is at least temporarily again functional but erratic. I got to peruse a few of the comments on this great thread, and I must comment on your Tudor conjugation:

I do
Thou dost
He/she/it doeth

I don't have time to look it up, and it may just be a variant depending on the period of common use, but to my ear the third person singular of the verb "to be" during this era should be doth rather than doeth. Maybe I remember it from Shakespeare, or more likely from the (now abandoned) 1928 Anglican prayer book, but "doeth" doth not sound right to me.

Speaking of the old BCP, they also used "saith" as in the King James bible, but I noted that only Anglican priests seemed to pronounce it "seth", and most other denominations pronounced it "say-eth". Interesting.

With best wishes to all,

Jack
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