Talk:English declension
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[edit] Interrogative Pronouns
The chart under the heading "Old masculine/feminine to the modern person" indicates that the instrumental and accusative cases of "who" have blended into the dative case. If this be so, how can "why" and "whence" be classified? "Why" is still used in an instrumental sense in constructions like "The reason why I called was to say that I'm sorry", and "whence" is explicitly and exclusively used in the accusative sense as the phrase is always "whence he came" and not "what/who he came". Also, isn't it somewhat of a generalization to say that the difference between "who" and "what" is simply the difference between persons and things. "What", as the interrogative of "that", may refer to persons as well as things and in some fairly visible dialects does e.g. "It was Susie what told him about the surprise party".--Jr mints 20:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
"Hwy, hwon" were neuter instrumentals and belong under "hwæt." I'm moving them there. "Hwi" is most likely an alternate spelling of "hwy"--Jr mints 21:18, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
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