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þei\nEnglish they From Middle English þei, borrowed in the 1200s from Old Norse þeir, plural of the demonstrative sá which acted as a plural pronoun. Displaced native Middle English he from Old English hīe — which vowel changes had left indistinct from he (“he”) — by the 1400s, being readily incorporated alongside native words beginning with the same sound (the, that, this). Used as a singular pronoun since 1300, e.g. in the 1325 Cursor Mundi.\nThe Norse term (whence also Icelandic þeir (“they”), Faroese teir (“they”), Danish de (“they”), Swedish de (“they”), Norwegian Nynorsk dei (“they”)) is from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”) (from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”)), whence also Old English þā (“those”) (whence obsolete English tho), Scots thae, thai, thay (“they; those”).\nThe origin of the determiner they (“the, those”) is unclear. The OED, English Dialect Dictionary and Middle English Dictionary define it and its Middle English predecessor thei as a demonstrative determiner or adjective meaning \"those\" or \"the\". 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No shy they British Rail cunts, ah kin fuckin tell ye.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["The, those."], "links": [["The", "the"], ["those", "those"]], "raw_glosses": ["(now Southern England dialect or nonstandard) The, those."], "tags": ["Southern-England", "dialectal", "nonstandard"]}, {"categories": ["African-American Vernacular English", "American English", "English dialectal terms", "English terms with quotations", "Quotation templates to be cleaned"], "examples": [{"ref": "1974, Arthur Hippler, Hunter's Point: a black ghetto in America, page 88:", "text": "MARY ELLEN is a different case from the others. She has five children and, she claims: \"I don't know who they father is. I ain't never kept track. They is always another one. You know, I can catch me a guy[.]\"", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "2002, Eminem, Sing for the Moment:", "text": "But all they kids be listenin' to me religiously / So I'm signin' CDs while police fingerprint me", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "2015, “Energy”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:", "text": "I got bitches askin' me about the code for the Wi-Fi / So they can talk about they timeline / And show me pictures of they friends", "type": "quote"}, {"ref": "2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 175:", "text": "He guessed one of the well-off people living in these houses must have took a shine to Cody and decided how he'd look good stuck up on they roof.", "type": "quote"}], "glosses": ["Their."], "links": [["Their", "their"]], "qualifier": "including African-American Vernacular", "raw_glosses": ["(US dialects, including African-American Vernacular) Their."], "tags": ["US", "dialectal"]}], "sounds": [{"enpr": "thā"}, {"ipa": "/ðeɪ/"}, {"audio": "en-us-they.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/41/En-us-they.ogg/En-us-they.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/En-us-they.ogg"}, {"audio": "En-uk-they.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/52/En-uk-they.ogg/En-uk-they.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-uk-they.ogg"}, {"rhymes": "-eɪ"}], "synonyms": [{"tags": ["dialectal", "pronunciation-spelling", "rare"], "word": "the"}, {"word": "thay"}, {"alt": "Gloucestershire, Berkshire", "tags": ["archaic", "possibly"], "word": "thaay"}], "wikipedia": ["they"], "word": "they"}

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