Talk:Ye Olde

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[edit] Ye: "You" or "The"?

The article says "Ye" is an olde translation of "the," but I thought "Ye" was actually an old translation of "your." --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 00:23, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

See the Oxford link in the article, along with the "Usage Note" for ye² here. "Ye" was also a second-person pronoun, but that's not how it's being used in "Ye Olde". -- Coneslayer (talk) 12:35, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] writing technique or printing press replacement?

the article says that "y" was used in place of the letter thorn due to the way mideval writers wrote, but some other wiki articles, (like ye disambiguation pages) say this was infact due to the lack of the thorn charcter on mideval italian and german printing presses, so Y was dilibertly used instead. -- Sonarpulse | Talk 01:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)