Ye (pronoun)

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Ye ( , unstressed or ) is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". In Middle English and Early Modern English, it was used as both an informal second-person plural and a formal honorific, to address a group of equals or superiors or a single superior. Although its use is archaic in most of the English-speaking world, it is used in Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada and in many parts of Ireland, to distinguish from the singular you. It is also a typical singular and plural form of you in Scots and certain dialects in England, such as Geordie. In southeastern England, ye had disappeared by c. 1600 in regular speech, being replaced by the original oblique case form you.

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