tbeachhead
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That would be the progressives of England, in rebellion against the Quakers who insisted that all were equal, and so “you” should be exclusively plural and not to refer to the nobility as a class above, “thee” and “thou” to be exclusively singular.The people who replaced 'thee' and 'thou' a very long time ago.
So, in the end the opposite happened. The progressives homogenized society and lessened the language.