Centuries ago English used to have “ye” for the second person plural pronoun, but I guess Anglo culture is fundamentally individualistic and makes even talking about stuff collectively an awkward experience.
Yes and no. The ye in “ye olde shoppe” was “the” with the “thorn” character which looks kinda like a y if you write it fancy. The ye in “Hear ye, hear ye” was actually said as ye and was the second person plural.
Country ass
or not, “y’all” was desperately needed for the English language.
This is you’se erasure
Centuries ago English used to have “ye” for the second person plural pronoun, but I guess Anglo culture is fundamentally individualistic and makes even talking about stuff collectively an awkward experience.
Yes and no. The ye in “ye olde shoppe” was “the” with the “thorn” character which looks kinda like a y if you write it fancy. The ye in “Hear ye, hear ye” was actually said as ye and was the second person plural.
I know it’s more complicated than that especially because centuries of “ye” said as “yeeee” established a new precedent anyway.
I just wanted an excuse to use the
emoji.
Hear Youse or hear y’all sound odd still