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YeYe was a city in ancient China. It was strategically important and served as the headquarters of a number of warlords toward the end of the Han Dynasty, including Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. Extensive excavations have been made on the ruins of the city in recent years and Chinese historians have been able to make detailed plans of the site. Ye 叶 Ye, Chinese surname Ye Sheng-tao, 叶圣陶(1893-1988
Ye is also the Early Modern English nominative of "you". It is also often used - mistakenly - to represent a pseudo-Early Modern English form of the word "the". This mistaken attribution is due to the mediaeval usage of the letter thorn (þ) to represent "th" - a letter which is today only in common use in Icelandic. The word "The" was thus written Þe, which in mediaeval script looked very similar to the letters "ye".
See also Cyrillic letter Е.
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