| This is fun, but some of the descriptions are a little off. "Hither" and "thither" are perfectly normal modern words too, they mean "to here" and "to there" (as "whither" means "to where"; "hence", "thence", and "whence" are the "from" equivalents). The verbs are the way they are because in early modern English they still had inflections for person/number/tense/mood, most of which has now been lost. "Goest" is not *really* dependent on being after or before "you", it's just the second person present singular form of "go". It does need to match up with the singular pronoun "you", but with inflections like this, the pronoun isn't even really necessary...but since English pronouns are always used anyway, the verb forms became unnecessary and were lost. If that makes sense. Same with "wert" and "dost", it doesn't really have anything to do with coming before or after a subject or object. I think you may also be mixing up indicatives and subjunctives. From the description in the clue, "were" appears to be a subjunctive, as it still is (like the song title, "If I Were a Rich Man", although it is falling out of use, since the other song title "If I Was a Rich Girl" also sounds normal now). |
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Commonest English Words 
Begins and Ends with 'D'
