Thone vs Thons - What's the difference?
thone | thons |
(dialectal) damp; moist; wet; soft from dampness.
(neologism, archaic) Belonging to thon, their (singular).
* {{quote-journal, year = 1889
, month = November
, title = That Desired Impersonal Pronoun
, journal = The Writer
, first = C. Crozat
, last = Converse
, publisher = William H. Hills
, city = Boston
, volume = 3
, issue = 2
, page = 248
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QQQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA248
, passage = Every writer has "thons " verbal likes and dislikes, yet, for the sake of convenience, I trust that even "thon" who dislikes verbal innovations will give my little word a little trial and note for me the result.
}}
* {{quote-journal, year = 1895
, month = July
, title = The New Pronoun
, journal = The Public-School Journal
, publisher = Public-School Publishing Co.
, city = Bloomington
, volume = 14
, issue = 11
, page = 613
, quotee = The Lynchburg Record
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3fkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA613
, passage = I hope that each student will have learned thons algebra lesson perfectly this morning.
}}
* {{quote-book, year = 1895
, title = Outlines of Psychology
, first = Henry Graham
, last = Williams
, publisher = C. W. Bardee
, location = Syracuse
, edition = 3rd
, page = 5
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_BEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5
, passage = Every student should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively correlate the facts of thons knowledge.
}}