English (was: Volatile declaration in C++)

Gary M. Samuelson garys at bunker.UUCP
Wed Oct 18 08:53:35 AEST 1989


In article <2441 at munnari.oz.au> ok at cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <4176 at pegasus.ATT.COM>, psrc at pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) writes:
>> And the multitudes ... did sayest, "Huh?"

>English again:  "sayest" is second-person singular present indicative.

Not only that, but it should be the auxiliary which is inflected:
"Thou didst say," for example.

Gary Samuelson



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