Quick Questions, Short Answers - No Debate

Perhaps this is all hooey, but there was a news story on TV a long while ago which claimed that only a few cents of each gallon actually goes to the gas station.I have no idea how this number was calculated, and it sounds pretty suspect to me. But perhaps it has some merit... and some meaning!Jon

Not quite enough though... at least according to the potholes down the street.Jon

I thought the snacks were expensive because of low volume sales on snacks and to make up for low profits on the gas.

It might take you back further than that. My source indicates that in OE, the accusative forms of 'thou' and 'ye' were e/ec and eow/eowic, respectively, while the dative forms were limited to being only e and eow. This appears to follow the pattern for the dual number of these pronouns (inc/incit) as well as for all three numbers of the first person pronouns.ABE:My source further states:

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C. M. Millward in A Biography of the English Language 2nd. ed. (1996):

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The first distinction, between dative and accusative, was collapsing even in OE, where it was clearly and consistently retained only in the third person. (pp. 98—99)

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Edited by Jon, : Edited to include further information...Edited by Jon, : No reason given.