A pronoun for the ‘two of us’ i.e ‘wit’

Old English (c. 5th to 11th centuries) had a pronoun for ‘we-two’ or ‘I and another’. Here is a fascinating article that describes this now (sadly) extinct pronoun.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260408-the-extinct-english-words-for-just-the-two-of-us

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