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alternative yee

1. CornwallIrelandNewfoundlandpersonalpronounarchaic outside Northern England; Ottawa Valley; archaic outside Northern England; Ottawa ValleyYou (the people being addressed).

   Know Ye that We have declared and by these Presents do declare our Will and Pleasure as follows—[…]

   1995, Elizabeth II, “Legal Notice 247 of 1996”, in Hong Kong Government Gazette, page B1096

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   My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 512

   Queſtion me then no more; whate'er ye want, / Ask in my Name, and God ſhall ſurely grant. / You've asked nothing yet for Jesus sake : / Ask and receive, and of my joyes partake.

   1671, Elisha Coles, chapter 6, in ΧΡΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ: Or, a Metrical Paraphraſe on the Hiſtory of Our Lord and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt : Dedicated to His Univerſal Church

   Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.

   1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, pages 241-242

   “A marshteazle, sire. Them's bald ratlike things what lives in the marsh. Not bad in pies if ye don't mind the tails.”

   2020, J. K. Rowling, “Chapter 9: The Shepherd's Story”, in The Ickabog, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 36

2. archaicpersonalpronounYou (the singular person being addressed).

   Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; [...]

   1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23

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   Maybe they'd get hurted!" said the boys. "Hurted, how-are-ye!" says Hughie; "How could anyone get hurted so simple as that? I'd be the last in the world to speak of such a thing in that case! But if yous are afraid of doing it..."

   1915, Charles L Graves, Humours of Irish life, page 255

alternative yͤ · alternative yee

1. archaicdefiniteThe.

   Ye Olde Medicine Shoppe

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   Now vnto yͤ king eternal, immortall, inuiſible, the onely wiſe God, be honour and glory for euer ⁊ euer. Amen.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 1:17, column 2

   It being one cheife proiect of yᵉ ould deluder, Satan, to keepe men from the knowledge of Scriptures, as in formʳ times by keeping yᵐ in an unknowne tongue, so in these lattʳ times by perswading from yᵉ use of tongues, yᵗ so at least yᵉ true sence & meaning of yᵉ originall might be clouded by false glosses of saint seeming deceivers, yᵗ learning may not be buried in yᵉ church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting oʳ endeavoʳs,

   1647, The old deluder, Satan, Act. (cited in American Public School Law, K. Alexander, M. Alexander, 1995)

alternative yee

1. slangYes, yeah.

plural yes · alternative yee

1. The Cyrillic letter Е, е, featured in various Slavic and Turkic languages.

plural Yes

1. A surname from Chinese.

1. slangKanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.

   “‘Crazy’ is a word that’s not gonna be used loosely in the future,” Ye said.

   2022 February 11, Peony Hirwani, “Kanye West tells fan who suggested he’s off medication to ‘be more conscious’”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2025

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Young Earth, a form of creationism which proposes that the Earth is no more than a few thousand years old.