Post stuff you think people don't know.
My start: At no point in history was "ye" pronounced the way people pronounce it these days. Even when the "ye" spelling was still used, people pronounced it as "the". Reason being, the word had two spellings back in the day, the modern "the" but also "þe" (the letter "þ" coming from runic). In blackletter (i.e. Gothic) script the shape of the letter looked a lot like a "y", and when book printing came around, lacking the þ letter, typesetters just used the "y" letter as the closest one.