Note that "ye" is the nominative and "you" is the accusative, which is counterintuitive given that thou/thee go the opposite way. When town criers yelled "Hear Ye!", the "ye" in question is the subject, not the object, of the hearing; the closest modern equivalent would be "Y'all hear" (for southerners in the US), or "Youse guys hear" (for northerners in the US).
Also note that using "ye" in place of "the", as in "Ye olde candye shoppe", is incorrect; this derives from a mistaken interpretation of an archaic spelling of "the" using a former runic letter later replaced by "th"; this letter kind of resembled a lowercase "y", and when printing was invented, early printers, lacking the already-obsolete letter in their movable type, sometimes used a "y" for it when transcribing old documents.
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Hear "Ye" not "Yee"
Note that "ye" is the nominative and "you" is the accusative, which is counterintuitive given that thou/thee go the opposite way. When town criers yelled "Hear Ye!", the "ye" in question is the subject, not the object, of the hearing; the closest modern equivalent would be "Y'all hear" (for southerners in the US), or "Youse guys hear" (for northerners in the US).
Also note that using "ye" in place of "the", as in "Ye olde candye shoppe", is incorrect; this derives from a mistaken interpretation of an archaic spelling of "the" using a former runic letter later replaced by "th"; this letter kind of resembled a lowercase "y", and when printing was invented, early printers, lacking the already-obsolete letter in their movable type, sometimes used a "y" for it when transcribing old documents.