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You Are The Umpire
''You Are The Ref'' is a British comic strip which has run in various publications since 1957, featuring a series of improbable hypothetical football (soccer), football scenarios that then invites the reader to make the refereeing decision. Created by sports artist Paul Trevillion, also famous for ''Roy of the Rovers'', the strip features contributions from several top referees, and was collected into an official book in 2006. From 2006 to 2016 it featured online on theguardian.com. and in ''The Observer'' newspaper. Publication history The evolution of the strip began in 1952 in the Tottenham Hotspur magazine ''The Lillywhite'', which featured a cartoon quiz by Paul Trevillion. The quiz included one question per issue on refereeing. Five years later, ''The People'' newspaper signed Trevillion to produce a dedicated refereeing cartoon quiz, and gave it the title ''Hey Ref''. In the 1960s, the strip began appearing in a much larger format alongside Trevillion's work for ''Roy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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In Modern English, ''you'' is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers. History ''You'' comes from the Proto-Germanic demonstrative base *''juz''-, *''iwwiz'' from PIE *''yu''- (second person plural pronoun). Old English had singular, dual, and plural second-person pronouns. The dual form was lost by the twelfth century, and the singular form was lost by the early 1600s. The development is shown in the following table. Early Modern English distinguished between the plural '' ye'' and the singular '' thou''. As in many other European languages, English at the time had a T–V distinction, which made the plural forms more respectful and deferential; they were used to address strangers and social superiors. This distinction ultimately led to familiar ''thou'' becoming obsolete in modern English, although it persists in some English dialects. ''Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |