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ye

YE

THE

Those who study the history of English know that the word often misread as “ye” in Middle English is good old “the” spelled with an unfamiliar

character called a thorn which looks vaguely like a “Y” but which is pronounced “TH.” So all those quaint shop names beginning “Ye Olde” are based

on a confusion: people never said “ye” to mean “the.” However, if you’d rather be cute than historically accurate, go ahead. Very few people will know

any better.

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