JK Rowling pens a Harry Potter prequel / War of Roses/Holmes?Figg/Walpurga

[Carol]

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

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

Carol responds:
I was thinking that this incorrect use of "thee" might be Yorkshire
dialect, but it seems that even the rustic Yorkshire characters in
Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" know "thee" from "thou." Little
Hareton says, "Now wilt thou be ganging?" (basically, "Now will you be
going?" with the implication of "Get out before I set my dog on you")
and old Joseph says, "Hareton, thou willn't sup thy porridge toneeght;
they'll be naught but lumps as big as my neive" (basically, "Hareton,
you won't eat your porridge tonight; there'll be nothing but lumps as
big as my [?}--I don't know what "neive" means.)

Maybe when Burnet wrote "The Secret Garden," "thou" was going out of
use among the people of Yorkshire, replaced by "thee," as it was in
some Quaker sects. (Anyone recall the song lyric "Thee is mine" from
"Friendly Persuasion"? Apparently, the film follows the book and the
book reflects real usage among some but not all Quakers of the time.)

Carol, just speculating but glad that she's not the only one who cares
about the  properuse of "thee" and "thou"