While standard English now only has a single second-person pronoun, "you", many Northern dialects have additional pronouns either retained from earlier forms or introduced from other variants of English. The pronouns "thou" and "thee" have survived in many rural Northern accents. In some case, these allow the distinction between formality and familiarity to be maintained, while in others "thou" is a generic second-person singular, and "you" (or "ye") is restricted to the plural. Even when "thou" has died out, second-person plural pronouns are common. In the more rural dialects and those of the far North, this is typically "ye", while in cities and areas of the North West with historical Irish communities, this is more likely to be "".