Just to add a few comments of notes: (1) There is a theological and social issue underlying the KJV's consistency in use of 'you/ye' as a plural. As early as the Middle English period, clergy would sometimes make a point of using 'thou' to people of high social status (instead of the increasingly-common 'polite ye') as a way of making the point that the deity doesn't recognize social rank. This was part of the motivation behind George Fox's insistence on maintaining thou vs. ye as a singular/plural distinction, and hence the attempt at continuing the practice among the Quakers. The members of the KJV committee were not just reflecting the practice of an earlier generation, they were choosing a position that already had social implications. The choice could be supported, of course, by appeal to the original languages of the texts, which had more specific subject/verb agreement markers than then-contemporary English did, and which used them more consistently. (2) I'll need to dig up the reference for this, but the 'thou'-forms were pretty much out of use in southern British English by around 1700. (3) I've been doing a fair amount of research on this since it has bearing on a project I'm working on, and I've found no reference thus far to anyone using 'you' as a plural and 'ye' as a singular, or vice versa. What does happen is that the old case distinction originally represented by you vs. ye breaks down, with only one form being used. Something similar happened in some Quaker communities, apparently, with thou/thee -- it ended up just being 'thee' most of the time. (4) The idea of using 'I' at the beginning of the sentence and 'me' every- where else, regardless of ideas of grammatical structure, is by no means new. If I remember correctly, you can find plenty of examples of 'case anomalies' in Old English, especially in spots where a noun is separated by several words from what it's supposed to match. Bill Spruiell Dept. of English Central Michigan University. To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/