[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: JK Rowling pens a Harry Potter prequel / War of Roses/Holmes?Figg/Walpurga

[Lee Kaiwen]

Lee Storm:
then we'll also have to correct Frances Hodgson Burnett ... "Why can 
thee not..." or "how did thee find..."

Atrocious grammar! Correct her post haste. Forgive her never.  Should be 
"Why canst thou not..." and "How didst thou find..."

"Thou" (nominative) generally took verbs ending in -st. "Thee" 
(accusative/dative) doesn't belong anywhere near the above sentences.

I've never read _The Secret Garden_, but if it's got more than a 
smattering of the above, I don't think I could finish it.

CJ