I like to talk (and text message) in fake olde english from time to time, for my own amusement.

Apparently, nobody bothered to correct my mispronouncing of the word ' ye '. It's the exact same word, and pronunciation, of the word "the"!

I have always pronounced it like " yee ", but it's pronounced closer to " duh ", because it's not actually the letter 'y' but a special letter we dropped from the english alphabet, which was a single-letter for 'th' combined (like in 'there').

Unless you're referring to the pronoun ye, which was also the Early Modern English second person plural... as in, "I am talking to ye five gentlemen!".

Also, yes, the y was used in those cases because typesets lacked þorn, so they used y. There was also another character, eð, which was similar.

*Ye*, the article, is pronounced *the*. *Ye*, the pronoun, is pronounced *ye*.

This isn't really a "why didn't somebody tell me" but more of a "how the hell could I not realize" scenario. I just did a timed technical test and I wanted to make sure my answers were done well, so I looked over and polished up my answers as much as possible. I went to submit it about 10 minutes before the deadline.

To my realization, the test was split up on multiple pages.

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I ended up answering the other questions as quickly as possible (they weren't difficult at all, but would take some time to complete), but I'm not expecting to hear back (I'd be quite surprised if I did) as I didn't submit it within the deadline. I don't even know how I could mess up such an opportunity so badly. Ugh.

Then last month I was in Australia and they had a feature on the radio talking about things you really should know, but only just found out recently. Someone called in saying that every car fuel gauge on the dashboard has an arrow on it indicating which side the fuel cap is on.

Not true in my experience. At least not on older cars.

Then last month I was in Australia and they had a feature on the radio talking about things you really should know, but only just found out recently. Someone called in saying that every car fuel gauge on the dashboard has an arrow on it indicating which side the fuel cap is on.

I've seen that in some cars, but several times in the past I've scanned the dashboard of what vehicle I'm in to figure out what side to park on, and couldn't find any (noticeable) indicators. I'm in the USA, and mostly driving vehicles made prior to the turn of the century.