Editing Newfoundland English (section)

=== Archaic pronouns ===
{{main|Ye (pronoun)}}
"Ye" is the plural form of "you" (singular) instead of ''you'' (plural), similar to how "you guys" is often used to replace "you" (plural) in [[Standard Canadian English]]. For example, when addressing two or more people, or when addressing one person but referring to everyone accompanying a person is, Newfoundland English uses "What do ye think?" instead of "What do you guys think?" Alternately, "What do you think?" is used to refer to a single person. That avoids the confusion of other English dialects in which a group of people would not know whether the speaker is inquiring about only the opinion of the person who is being speaking or the various opinions of the entire group. In most areas of Newfoundland that use the pronoun, such as the [[Avalon Peninsula]] outside [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], "ye" mirrors the same variant in Hiberno-English in which "you" (singular), "you" (plural), and "they" correspond to "you," "ye," and "dey." The last arises simply from a change in pronunciation and so it is written "they," but the other words are pronounced as in Standard English. Variants of "ye" are also used such as "yeer" (your), "yeers" (yours), and "yeerselves" (yourselves).<ref>{{cite news |last=Hickey |first=Raymond |url=https://www.uni-due.de/~lan300/02_Remarks_on_Pronominal_Usage_in_Hiberno-English_%28Hickey%29.pdf |title=Remarks on pronominal usage in Hiberno-English |work=Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |publisher=[[University of Duisburg-Essen]] |date=1983 |pages=47–53 |access-date=11 November 2020}}</ref> In some communities on the Northeast Coast, "you" (singular), "you" (plural), and "they" correspond to "ye," "dee," and "dey," respectively.