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EyeSeeYou Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Them & Mine = THEIR & MY in old English?

There's some song titles I've come across:

Them Bones

Mine Eyes

I suspect THEM works as THEIR, and MINE as MY. Are we in presence of Old English being used here? Or is it just an example of some kind of broken English?

Thanks.
  

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Them Bones is a dialect form of English. Mine Eyes is an old-fashioned form of English. Neither of them is Old English, which is another name for Anglo-Saxon, which looks like this: 'Heald þú nú, hrúse, nú hæleð ne móstan

— Blue Jay

  • Them Bones is a dialect form of English.
  • Mine Eyes is an old-fashioned form of English.
  • Neither of them is Old English, which is another name for Anglo-Saxon, which looks like this: 'Heald þú nú, hrúse, nú hæleð ne móstan
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Them Bones is a dialect form of English.
Mine Eyes is an old-fashioned form of English.
Neither of them is Old English, which is another name for Anglo-Saxon, which looks like this:
'Heald þú nú, hrúse, nú hæleð ne móstan
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Blue jay , Is that you wrote named old English Form ?
Is this English Form being read in The University?
I mean in the English Field
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The Old English quotation I gave is from "Beowulf", a poem that was probably written sometime between 800 AD and 1000 AD, the exact date is unknown.
Historically, English is divided into three main types, Old English, Middle English, and Modern English. Old English is the language that was spoken in England from about 500 AD to about 1100/1200 AD. It was related to the ancestors of Dutch and
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Thank You Blue jay Because of your Complete Explanation
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