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Two different words. Ye begins with the same "y" sound as "yellow." Ye is a second-person pronoun in the nominative case (meaning it is a subject, not an object). It's like "ustedes" or "vosotros" in Spanish, or like "ihr" in German (or "y'all" when used as a subject). Thee begins with the same "th" sound as "there." Thee is the second-person singular and is used as an object, not as a subject (except by Quakers).
Well, edamame, hermione, Pago Pago, penelope are all pronounced exactly the way they're spelled. You do realize that the Roman alphabet uses one letter for more than one sound, don't you?
Yes, most of these words are pronounced exactly as they are spelled, according to the strict phonetic rules of theit original language. English, almost uniquely, drags them into our language an tellls you to deal with it.
Wanna try to say the familiar Brazilian woman's name Railde?
Initial R like an H
A as in Father
IL as EW, like in Brazil. "Bra-zew"
Terminal DE like J, like the D in Educate
So "Railde" is pronounced HA-EWJ. It's not a common name, but you can find a dozen people with that name by searching Facebook.
I got my first vaccine today at a state megasite in Gloucester County.
When I was little, I thought it was pronounced GLOU-cester.
When I grew up, I understood it to be pronounced GLOU-ster.
Today I chatted with the man on line ahead of me, and I mentioned that I had driven 90 minutes from another part of the state, and he said he was from Glawster.
When I lived in NJ, it was pronounced "Glah-ster" county, but I can see the variations.
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