Agnes by Tony Cochran for May 16, 2015

For lotsa moneyeth.

I give them a pass because they’re just kids and couldn’t know better- but one of my silly pet peeves is when people think they sound Shakespearean or Biblical by randomly sticking ‘eth’ on the ends of words. It was not random. Modern folks just don’t know when it was done, even though we sill use its replacement: the ‘s’ at the end of a verb. OLD STYLE: She findeth a guitar. NEW STYLE: She finds a guitar. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. It never goes anywhere else. UNLESS- your name is Elizabeth or something. Then go wild.

However, this is a cartoon, and cartoons are meant to be FUNNY! Are you seeing the humor?

I must sayeth that that is a beautiful guitar.

Thufferin thocatash tho what?if thomeone thinkth they thound thilly thath their problem.I thay bring back the th thingy itth tho mucth fun

“Ye” is terribly abused. It was pronounced as we do “th”.The “th” sound had it’s own letter, not in our alphabet.“Ye Olde Shoppe” is “The Old Shop”.~Larry.

Behold! A slew (or slough) of doth, whereforth, thee and thine. I shall repose here upon my tuffet and enjoy the musings of others. Perhaps over a draught (or draft) or two.

What an erudite buncha nuts.

@Dani Rice" Scholars think….1525 the “th” sound was pronounced as an “s”.".Silly of them.People in isolated communities from that time still talk with th.