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Thread #120141   Message #4080577
Posted By: GUEST
22-Nov-20 - 09:01 AM
Thread Name: Origins: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Subject: RE: Origins: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
By the end of the sixteenth century 'ye' as a form of 'you' was limited to religious, literary and archaic contexts. The distinction between subject and object forms went earlier, it says here: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/143352/what-happened-first-ye-you-merging-to-you-or-thou-thee-falling-out-o

However, it seems that in some dialects ye (meaning you) is still used.