This has been keeping me up at night (yes, literally, that’s what my life has become) :

You know how  "Ye" from “ Ye Olde Taverne ” would be read as “The” because the character “Y” was in fact an abbreviation/substitute for “th” ? Does that mean that “you” is in fact just “thou” misspelled/mispronounced ?

I should probably get back to my essays…