Murray the schoolmaster, whose English Grammar appeared some years before that of Lindley Murray, speaks of it as follows: "Thou, the second person singular, though strictly grammatical, is seldom used, except in addresses to God, in poetry, and by the people called Quakers.

This value is purely grammatical, but the gesture may give it a superlative idea, which we call additional value.

Not even the girl had humbled him so completely as had this long, lank, sinfully grammatical man from Michigan.