To expand on the employment of the word 'Ye', which was touched upon the gentleman who is operating under the alias of dd.:
Ye can be employed in two ways, firstly as the plural form of thou; so as to address a group of people, in such cases, it is sounded y?; and secondly as an alternate (in written contexts) to the word 'the'. However, this is an alteration in spelling only, and does not in any way necessitate pronouncing it in any manner other than that of the greater-spotted 'the'.
The reason for the word pronounced as 'the' being written as 'ye' arises due to Middle English's thorn character coming to be written in the same manner as the y. As a spelling, it was used as a seemingly handy abbreviation in handwritting to 'the' until the 19th century, and in printers' types during fifteenth and sixteenth century.
Ye can be employed in two ways, firstly as the plural form of thou; so as to address a group of people, in such cases, it is sounded y?; and secondly as an alternate (in written contexts) to the word 'the'. However, this is an alteration in spelling only, and does not in any way necessitate pronouncing it in any manner other than that of the greater-spotted 'the'.
The reason for the word pronounced as 'the' being written as 'ye' arises due to Middle English's thorn character coming to be written in the same manner as the y. As a spelling, it was used as a seemingly handy abbreviation in handwritting to 'the' until the 19th century, and in printers' types during fifteenth and sixteenth century.