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- synonyms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Looking at the definitions given for yeah, yeh, yep, or yup, all those words are defined as exclamation noun nonstandard spelling of yes, representing informal pronunciation Looking at the examples provided from the Werriam-Webster Online, it seems that yeah, and yep are used in two different cases
- pronunciation - How do you spell Aye Yai Yai - English Language . . .
The phrase that's spoken when someone is hand-wringing about a thorny problem Speaker One: Uh-oh -- we have to reformat ALL THE DOCUMENTS! Speaker Two: Aye Yai Yai, that's a lot of work! "Aye
- Difference yea nay and yes no - four-form system [duplicate]
So, my brother is watching on tv a vote a in the American Congress He says that the members are asked to vote with yea nay (I have heard that from the Chamber of Commons in the UK as well) Now
- history - If the letter J is only 400–500 years old, was there a J . . .
Thus, the Greek spelling for "Jesus" was Ιησους, pronounced something like "Yeh-SOOS", and the Latin likewise was Iesus Subsequently, in the Latin alphabet the letter J was developed as a variant of I, and this distinction was later used to distinguish the consonantal "y" sound [j] from the vocalic "i" sound [i]
- Meaning of So yeah - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
"So yeah" is a filler phrase in English, especially for the younger American generations There are a few specific uses of "so yeah" When starting the sentence, it most commonly is used as an interjection to get conversation started Or, as a pause while the person gathers their thoughts When ending a sentence, it often is used in places where the spoken emphasis and pacing of the sentence
- Something is yay big - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The expression is actually (or originally) " yea big " or " yea high " where yea essentially means this Wiktionary has an entry for yea: Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture) The pony was yea high Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find definitions for this word (with this sense) in any other dictionaries online Yay is most likely a corruption of yea
- etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I am curious as to why "nay" replaces the simple unequivocal "no" in the context of voting My research in Merriam-Webster tells me that "nay" means "no" (not the other way around) and the first k
- etymology - What is the history and regional dispersion of the . . .
Yes is the same word as yea which is the same in germanic It's a very old word Being one of the most used words in the English language, yea probably was said as yep and yup in many colloquial settings, workshops, pubs many times before it was recorded in writing yup is a fairly low energy way of say the word, which is probably easier to pronounce than yea, so laborers saying yea would have
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