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minus-squareabbadon420@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·21 hours agoI did not know that, but also just heard Kanye’s new hitler song half an hour before making that post. So I was freshly scarred.
minus-squaretormeh@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-220 hours agoWorth noting that the y in “ye” is not actually a y: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Ye_form Tldr: “Ye” is pronounced identically to “the”. The “th” sound used to have its own letter that somehow got to be written “y” until everyone decided that was quite silly.
I did not know that, but also just heard Kanye’s new hitler song half an hour before making that post. So I was freshly scarred.
Worth noting that the y in “ye” is not actually a y: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Ye_form
Tldr: “Ye” is pronounced identically to “the”. The “th” sound used to have its own letter that somehow got to be written “y” until everyone decided that was quite silly.