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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
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
Im well vs. Im good vs. Im doing well, etc The greeting How are you? is asking How are you doing in general? — How are you? I'm well [Misunderstood the question ] because well as an adjective which means: in good health especially a
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]
Difference between havent . . . yet and didnt. . . . yet Wikipedia has a decent article on past tenses that explains a lot of this To summarise: "They didn't start yet" is the negative form of the simple past, "They started " In the positive form it indicates that the activity happened at some definite known point in the past, and is over and done with now In the negative form this is a more nebulous idea, but in this example it would imply that
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
Havent you? or dont you? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What is the right question tag (in British English) when we use the verb have? I have interviewed a few native speakers and none of them could explain why sometimes they prefer "haven't hasn't" and