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All Ears English Podcast

AEE 813: Should You Use Words Like "Thou" and "Thus" in Everyday English?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Business, Education, Language Learning

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0

This is an All-Ears-English podcast episode 813.

0:03.4

Should you use words like thou and thus in everyday English?

0:07.6

Welcome to the All-Ears-English podcast, downloaded more than 50 million times,

0:15.8

we believe in Connection Not Perfection, with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York

0:26.0

Radio Girl, coming to you from Boston and New York City, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week go to all ears English.

0:37.7

dot com forward slash subscribe. Today a listener asks us how to use the words thou and thus. We give you the inside scoop on how to use the word

0:52.0

on how, when, and where to use these words and when to avoid

0:56.0

them to sound more natural. This episode is brought to you by Deliverer because anything goes this Christmas.

1:10.0

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1:14.0

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1:16.4

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1:20.0

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1:24.2

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1:26.1

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1:29.4

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1:30.6

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1:32.8

Hey, Michelle, how are you today?

1:35.0

I'm good, how are you?

1:38.0

Oh my gosh, well, I just came back from my podcasting conference

1:41.3

over the weekend and I had a red-eye flight. Red eyes are so hard going

1:45.2

from California to New England. It's so tough. It's so tough. I can't sleep on a plane. So I was really just

1:51.6

watching a movie and I was like a zombie on Saturday all day in Boston.

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