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ye1 /jiː  /pronoun [second person plural] archaic or dialect plural form of thou1. gather ye rosebuds, while ye may Usage The history of the use of ye is complex. In the earliest period it was used only as the plural subjective form. In the 13th century it came to be used in the singular, equivalent to thou. In the 15th century, when you had become the dominant subjective form, ye came to be used as an objective singular and plural (equivalent to thee and you). Various uses survive in modern dialects. PhrasesOriginOld English gē, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gij and German ihr. In deliberately quaint names such as Ye Olde Tea Shoppe, ye represents an imaginary old form of the. In the Middle Ages English used a letter called a thorn that indicated the sound of th. It looked rather like y, and came to be written in an identical way, so that the could be ye. This spelling was kept as a convenient abbreviation in handwriting down to the 19th century, and in printers' types during the 15th and 16th centuries, but it was never pronounced as ‘ye’. The other ye was simply a regular old form of ‘you’.
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