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Thread #120141   Message #4080597
Posted By: Lighter
22-Nov-20 - 11:47 AM
Thread Name: Origins: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Subject: RE: Origins: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
I suspect that the familiar "ya" (pronounced "yuh") is a survival of "ye" rather than an alteration of "you." It would certainly take less doing.

It is, of course, both nominative and objective.