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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
punctuation - Should ya have an apostrophe? Doin? Etc - English . . . In "ya", the "ou" vowel has been replaced with "a" We don't have punctuation to indicate that, so we just write it This is also generally the case where a replacement slang informal word is missing letters, but others have changed When this happens, we usually just transcribe the sounds rather than using an apostrophe
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
What is “Who are ya?” and whence it came? “Who are ya?” seems a popular chant or taunt with English football fans, both on and off the stands Is it a fair assessment that it means to diminish the opposition as unknown and insignificant?
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?
See you in the funny papers: etymology and meaning And to say "Hey, I've enjoyed chewing the fat with you, but I don't want to have deep, serious, personal conversation with you I'm hitting the road now, but it has genuinely been nice talking with ya " It is equivalent to "Nice chatting with you," but with a more specific summation acknowledging the tenor of the conversation you just had
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 '
How to use you know - English Language Usage Stack Exchange For a non-native speaker like me, I am always wondering how to use you know correctly, as in the following sentence: Alright, well, for example, like on Saturdays, y’know, what I liked to do