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  • In French (and probably many other languages) first person plural is more polite. People in England started defaulting to “you” as it was a safer bet socially, and “thou” fell out of use.

    English also used thorn (þ) before for “th” but printing presses didn’t, and substituted “y”, which I suspect contributed.