Template talk:English personal pronouns

Discussion

Rather confusingly, the entries for some of the possessive pronouns list them as adjectives and but the others are listed as pronouns... --80.175.250.220 11:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

I don't see anything strange about the fact that the before last column called possessive concerns the possessive adjectives, because they are pertinent to list with these pronouns. JackPotte 17:54, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

However we have to rename the template, and some of this column entries paragraphs... JackPotte 17:59, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

For instance, my is correct but your has been changed to your. JackPotte 18:01, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

ye etc.

There was the old pronoun "ye", 2nd person plural subject case. Did old pronouns for object and possessive (= genitive) case also exist?

• [https*//books.google.de/books?id=q7UxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA554], 1871 : ""Ah, Misthress Warriner, but it's yeself that's the fine lady," Katty O'Hara would say" & ""it's yeself that has everything nice about ye and going off to yer church o' a Sunday, like a Christian, I swear, though ye are a Protestanter."".
• Edgar Albert Guest (20th century): "It ain't home t' ye, though it be the palace of a king, / Until somehow yer soul is sort o' wrapped round everything."

That sounds like ye, yer, yeself/yerself were or are pronouns, but it sounds like they're used in singular. Well:

• Maybe those forms were created in modern times to imitate an older style of speaking. Or maybe they're just modern corrupted forms of you etc., which look like the old ye, but have nothing to do with it.
• ye, which originally was used in plural, also got used in singular. So ye etc. could be plural forms, but might also be used in singular, e.g. to show respect, politeness.

--07:01, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Themself

I would go even further and classify "themself" as slang. I suggest putting (slang) next to it in the template.