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On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:00:11 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> Bringing Þ back would be good. I’d like to see some of the older
> pronouns (thou for singular ‘you’, yit and wit for ‘you two’ and ‘we
> two’) return to common use too.

The US has 'youse' for 'you two (or more)' as in 'youse guys'. 

Going down the 'thou' road might least to a formal and informal mode like 
du and Sie, plus the difference between Sie and sie. Modern English has 
spent a thousand years or more getting rid of declensions and simplifying 
conjugations.  In the US there are reports that after 12 years of 
'education' a depressingly large number of the students can't really speak 
the language.