I’d imagine they fake an American accent. Maybe Burbank, CA?

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    1 year ago

    ‘Ye’ as second person plural is very much a thing in Ireland, especially in the west, as in “Are ye going out tonight”.

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      That’s neat! It’s definitely a handy word to have I think, I’m jealous. I hate the United States tendency toward “you guys,” or something instead like that so awkward. The south figured out the issue by using y’all.

      If you hear ye in the United States, it’s probably just someone misunderstanding that y was sometimes used to represent the thorn ‘th’ sound as in “Ye Olde Shoppe” which should still just be pronounced, with a th.