Dick - The only problem with driving out the singular thou/thee is that we are now left without a definitive plural - except, of course, if you live in the South, where you solve this problem with "y'all." To rephrase Yakof Schmirnoff, "English. Vat a language!"
By the way, didn’t a similar socio-political thing happen a few centuries back with plural “you” becoming singular as a polite alternative to singular “thou”? It proved so successful that it drove thou/thee from the language.
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