[CS-FSLUG] [PD] The American Flag - I'm speechless...

Karl Kleinpaste karl at kleinpaste.org
Tue Oct 21 00:08:00 CDT 2008


Timothy Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> writes:
> Methinks thy eyes have not scoured the king's text enough

Not to be pointlessly picky, but...

That should be "thine eyes".  (Think _Battle Hymn of the Republic_,
"mine eyes have seen" etc.)  Once upon a time, my/mine and thy/thine
were conjugated like the modern-day a/an, where the consonant is
obligated when the following word begins with a vowel.




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