In traditional dialects, ''thou'' is used in the English countriescounties of [[Cumberland]], [[Westmorland]], [[Durham, England|Durham]], [[Lancashire]], [[Yorkshire]], [[Staffordshire]], [[Derbyshire]] and some western parts of [[Nottinghamshire]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Trudgill|title=The Dialects of England|date=21 January 2000|isbn=978-0631218159|page=93|publisher=Wiley }}</ref> The [[Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects]], which began in 1968,<ref>{{cite book|page=Foreword|last=Parry|first=David|title=A Grammar and Glossary of the Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dialects of Rural Wales|year=1999|publisher=The National Centre for English Cultural Tradition|url=https://archive.org/details/start-of-survey-of-anglo-welsh-dialects/page/n7/mode/2up}}</ref> found that ''thou'' persisted in scattered sites across [[Clwyd]], [[Dyfed]], [[Powys]] and [[West Glamorgan]].<ref>{{cite book|page=108|last=Parry|first=David|title=A Grammar and Glossary of the Conservative Anglo-Welsh Dialects of Rural Wales|year=1999|publisher=The National Centre for English Cultural Tradition|url=https://archive.org/details/sawd-morphology-and-syntax/page/108/mode/2up}}</ref> Such dialects normally also preserve distinct verb forms for the singular second person, for example ''thee coost'' (standard English: ''you could'', archaic: ''thou couldst'') in northern Staffordshire. Throughout rural Yorkshire, the old distinction between nominative and objective is preserved.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}} The possessive is often written as ''thy'' in local dialect writings, but is pronounced as an unstressed ''tha'', and the possessive pronoun has in modern usage almost exclusively followed other English dialects in becoming ''yours'' or the local{{Specify|date=September 2008}} word ''your'n'' (from ''your one''):{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}
