Re: How and why did English lose "thou"

Grimble Crumble <grimblecrumble870@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:

              so how come "thou" was lost?

  According to Rodríguez (2022) this probably happened because
  folks leaned toward being extra polite, wanting to play it
  safe instead of accidentally being rude by picking the wrong
  word (Strang, 1970, p. 139). As this careful attitude caught
  on, there were fewer and fewer times when "thou" made sense,
  so by the 1700s, it was really only hanging on in some local
  dialects or in old texts and religious stuff.

  "A History of English." (1970) - B. M. Strang