- 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
- Is yay or nay an acceptable alternative to yea or nay?
Is "yay or nay" an acceptable alternative to "yea or nay"? I have seen it several times in recent weeks, enough to make me wonder whether it is an emerging usage or just a common typo
- 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]
- When is Y a vowel? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In school we are taught the vowels: A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y Today's XKCD got me thinking about when the letter Y is considered to be a vowel I understand (perhaps incorrectly) that in w
- Why are words like Thou Thee Ye no longer used in English?
When going through old English literature, especially stories and poems, we can see they have been full of words like "thou" and "thee" and "ye" Some of my English te
- 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
- How, or where, did Ye God become egad?
Looking up the etymology of 'egad' I saw that it is an archaic, euphemistic form of 'O God' or 'Ye God ' I assume this was a one off evolution, and the 'how' was some idiosyncratic shift in the
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