Originally Posted By: Faldage
Or either it's just the same impulse that drove us to the singular 'you', which originally was used to people higher in social status to the speaker. How far back can we trace the royal we in English?


'We şæt ellenweorc estum miclum,
feohtan fremedon, frecne geneğdon
eafoğ uncuşes..'

-joe (if you consider Beowulf to be English) friday