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I was taught that it was written more like a French 'z' (looks a bit like a number 3), and that some old (Scottish, often) names spelt with a 'z' like Menzies and Mackenzie might have been pronounced with a 'y' sound at the 'z'.
Even further back and I think it's the second person plural. "You" (many, or respectful). e.g. Ye shall not...
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Half right and all wrong. The 2nd person plural nominative "ge" (=you) was pronounced ye, but did not become spelled ye until the Middle English period. At no time did it ever stand for "the." There was a letter in the Old English alphabet called thorn, used in spelling the demonstratives the, this and that. Lower case thorn looks a bit like a p, but uppper case thorn looks a lot like an upper case Y. Simply using a Y is wrong.
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