Pronunciation of ye

[Englishlanguage]

Hello everybody
I listened to the pronunciation of the archaic article ye on an on-line dictionary and I found it was pronounced exactly like the.
Is this pronunciation correct or might it just be a recording mistake?
Thank you

[Casiopea]

This may help, ye: Definition and Much More from Answers.com

[Englishlanguage]

Originally Posted by Casiopea

This may help, ye: Definition and Much More from Answers.com

That's where I found the pronunciation. The problem is that the record pronounces it just like the but the written pronunciation is this:
ye1 (THē, yē)
So, it looks like two different pronunciation are allowed but I'm not sure about this.

[Casiopea]

There are two ye's, ye1 (article) and ye2 (pronoun). The first one, the article, has two pronunciations, the and ye, but its true form is the. I quote (same source):

"The word ye in such signs looks identical to the archaic second plural pronoun ye, but it is in fact not the same word. Ye in “Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe” is just an older spelling of the definite article the. The y in this ye was never pronounced (y) but was rather the result of improvisation by early printers.

However, the modern revival of the archaic spelling of the has not been accompanied by a revival of the knowledge of how it was pronounced, with the result that (yē) is the usual pronunciation today."

Scroll down the same page (Answers.com) and you'll see:

ye2 (yē)

pron.

(used with a pl. verb) Archaic. You.

(used with a sing. verb) Archaic. You.

[Middle English, from Old English gē.]

Does that help?

[Englishlanguage]

Originally Posted by Casiopea

There are two ye's, ye1 (article) and ye2 (pronoun). The first one, the article, has two pronunciations, the and ye, but its true form is the. I quote (same source):

"The word ye in such signs looks identical to the archaic second plural pronoun ye, but it is in fact not the same word. Ye in “Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe” is just an older spelling of the definite article the. The y in this ye was never pronounced (y) but was rather the result of improvisation by early printers.

However, the modern revival of the archaic spelling of the has not been accompanied by a revival of the knowledge of how it was pronounced, with the result that (yē) is the usual pronunciation today."

Scroll down the same page (Answers.com) and you'll see:

ye2 (yē)

pron.

(used with a pl. verb) Archaic. You.

(used with a sing. verb) Archaic. You.

[Middle English, from Old English gē.]

Does that help?

Yes, it does. Thank you very much.

[BobK]

Originally Posted by Englishlanguage

Hello everybody
I listened to the pronunciation of the archaic article ye on an on-line dictionary and I found it was pronounced exactly like the.
Is this pronunciation correct or might it just be a recording mistake?
Thank you

It does rhyme with one of the forms of 'the'. The pronunciation is /yi:/

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