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- Etymology of using ya instead of you - slang
9 I have noticed that some people in parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio often say "ya" instead of "you"? As in "Didya do your homework?" instead of "Did you do your homework?" Does anyone know the etymology behind this pronunciation? I am wondering if this could be evidence of the influence of a large population of people that still speak
- Yall or yall? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
If anything, isn't ya'll a contraction of you will (where you is written as ya, as in "ya know")? Otherwise, the only explanation I can come up with for why someone would ever spell it ya'll is through (mistaken) analogy with contractions like I'll, he'll, etc
- What is “Who are ya?” and whence it came?
2 "Who are ya?" is a rhetorical question asking the other, lowly team to justify their presence at a match or level they don't deserve to play at It's a mark of lack of repect to the other team Yes, it's a fair assessment that it means to diminish the opposition as unknown and insignificant The top Urban Dictionary definition gives guidance
- punctuation - Should ya have an apostrophe? Doin? Etc - English . . .
The only time ya should be followed by an apostrophe is when it is part of the contraction of ya and will: ya'll I see people mistype this all the time, ya'll when they meant to say y'all
- What is the origin of the expression ya think?
2 Maybe I'm just slow on the uptake, but the expression "ya think" seems to have recently become nearly universal, at least as viewed from the US and the UK, where I encounter it all the time, spoken by all kinds of people What is the origin of this expression? Is it indeed recent?
- what is an Irish greeting to be said to someone in the evening?
Tom Carey, at the Macmillan Dictionary Blog, warns that even ' Top of the morning to you' has become archaic: ' "Top of the morning to you”, or more casually “Top o’ the mornin’ to ya”, is a well-known traditional Irish greeting that Irish people don’t really use any more – at least not without irony, in my experience '
- Why is you all contracted to yall and not youll?
Ya'll, I have heard from grammatically correct Southern friends, was a version of you, while all y'all was the form for you all (i e plural) But either way, the sooner this thing dies from the English language, the better
- When is it appropriate to use see you later?
When my girlfriend says "good night" (when sleeping in the same bed) I usually say "see ya" and she just laughs like it doesn't make sense Oh whale, say what you want when you want
- This should be all ya need to hear to not vote for any ticket . . . - Yappi
This should be all ya need to hear to not vote for any ticket that includes Walz
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