Timeline for What's up with the -es/-eth inconsistency in "O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus"?
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 8:44 | comment | added | BoldBen | @Mick I think it's more likely that he was trying to cut down on the aspirants. How he watcheth o'er is just one aitch too many. The earlier line How he loveth, ever gets away with it, perhaps because of the comma after loveth. Still makes the verse a bit odd, though. | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 4:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/809986471545475072 | ||
| Dec 17, 2016 at 0:32 | comment | added | Mick | One can over-analyse song lyrics. However, Francis may have chosen watches to match the sibilance of ones at the end of the same line, and watcheth to match intercedeth on the preceding line. I'm assuming that this is the lyricist's version. Hymnal editors are (and were) notorious for meddling with lyrics. I choke on practically every old hymn that I am expected to sing these days. New hymns, I refuse to sing, they are so bad. | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 0:07 | history | edited | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2016 at 0:06 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | @PeterShor: Sure, but in one place, "watcheth" (two syllables) is used, and in another place "watches" (two syllables) is used. That's the inconsistency I'm wondering about. | |
| Dec 17, 2016 at 0:02 | comment | added | Peter Shor | This was written long after -eth was archaic. I suspect part of the reason for -eth was to make it scan; loves and intercedes wouldn't have enough syllables to fit the tune. | |
| Dec 16, 2016 at 23:55 | history | asked | Nathan Tuggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |