Tha

//ða// article, pron

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Pronoun
  1. 1
    Pronunciation spelling of thou. Northern-England, alt-of, dialectal, pronunciation-spelling

    ""[…] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?""

Article
  1. 1
    Eye dialect spelling of the. US, alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

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""[…] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?""

Etymology

In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou.

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