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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
- 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 phrase Top of the morning to you?
The phrase is Irish in origin but now very rarely used in Ireland (except as a sterotypical "Irishism") It simply means "the best of the morning to you" - perhaps from the idea of unhomogenised milk, where the cream rises to the top An appropriate response might be a simple "thank you" although the traditional response would be "And the rest of the day to yourself " Terrible attempts at
- 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
- 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
- Idiom: Origin of the phrase a bit how ya going to mean . . . - slang
2 The phrase refers to the social class of the speaker, as in 'How ya goin' is originally something a lower or working class person would say in post WW I Australia So it means dodgy or unsure of the reliability However it has become nonsensical because the phrase 'how's it going?' has run around the world like a bushfire since the 1970's
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