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Compare the use of thou in shakespeare and the king james version of the bible

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The use of the pronoun is also still present in poetry. ... In addition, the translators of the King James Version of the Bible attempted to maintain the distinction found in Hebrew between singular and plural second person pronouns. As such, they used "thou" for singular, and "you" for plural.
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