‘That boat belongs to my brother (3) and me (1). We (1) bought it.’
‘That is known only to you (2) and me (1). We know it.’
‘I saw you (2) and your brother (3). You (2) were there.’
But persons are upmated as well from kindliness or civility as from the calls of speech-craft. Thus a speaker will often upmate himself with a hearer or another, as a mother may upmate herself with her child by we, instead of thou or you; as,
Here we go up, up, up;
Here we go down, down, downy;
Here we go backward and forward;
And here we go round, round, roundy—
though the going is only that of the child.
A young man may say to a girl friend, ‘How proud we are,’ meaning ‘you are’; or a man may say of others who might not be very brisk at work, ‘We are not very strong to-day’; or a footman may upmate himself with the heads of the house with such wording as ‘We do not treat our guests so unhandsomely.’
Vocabulary. L. vocabulum, a word. A word-list, word-book, word-store.
Vocative (case). L. voco, to call. The call-case.