[momofnicholas]

I am a canadian and I do no say thee before a vowel. Sometimes I might say thee end but it is slang and it is not right. Here is a link that talks about it.

AUE: Thou, Thee, and Archaic Grammar

[lesliec]

Hi, fellow Canadian! I think you have misunderstood the "thee" and "thuh" to which the original question referred. It does not refer to the archaic pronoun - thee (which would be quite hilarious in contemporary English). The comments refer to the pronunciation of the article - the. The original poster has used the spelling of thuh and thee to indicate the sounds of the word without using phonetic symbols. (And if you only use the thuh pronunciation for the - you are probably from a different region of Canada - and as I said before, I would direct students to note the usage that is most appropriate to where they are speaking English.