tha

pron

tha

pron

/ða/

Etymology In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou.

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Northern England, Dialectal, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of thou.

  • "[…] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?"1937, Homer, The Odyssey:

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