'ee

Appendix:Variations of "ee" English Alternative forms en 'e Pronoun en Cornwall archaic colloquial en ye second person pronoun used like an enclitic, after a consonant en 1789 w:Richard Brinsley Sheridan St Patrick's Day (play) St. Patrick's Day, or, The Scheming Lieutenant act 1, scene 1 Oh, all that's fair; but hark'ee, lads, I must have no grumbling on St. Patrick's Day; so here, take this, and divide it amongst you. en 1861 w:Charles Dickens 40 Great Expectations "Look'ee here, Pip," said he, laying his hand on my arm in a suddenly altered and subdued manner; "first of all, look'ee here. I forgot myself half a minute ago. What I said was low; that's what it was; low. en 1905 w:Mark Guy Pearse Terrible Expensive The Quiver 1068 "Will 'ee have some?" said Martha Ann presently, holding out her apron filled with rosy quarrendens. en 1948 November and December By Broad Gauge to Cornwall Railway Magazine 361 If a sun-bonneted market woman got in with us, mother could never resist talking to her, and answering the invariable Cornish question: "Wheer be 'ee goin'?" Then would follow the astonished "From Lunnon are 'ee? Aw, my deer!" Derived terms en 'ark at 'ee en harkee en lookee References Hans Lindquist, Christian Mair (eds.), Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English. en second person pronouns