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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
- 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
- What is the proper usage of Yall in southern American dialects
Living in Texas for the past eight years I have heard the following used over and over: Y'all, y'alls, y'all's, all y'all, all y'alls, and all y'all's (Think about this — "I bought y'all a yawl ") Can't wait to get back to Minnesota where all y'all have to deal with are ufda, ubetcha, ya shure you bet, don't ya know
- 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
- What is the origin of the expression ya think?
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?
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