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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?
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
- 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
- pronunciation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Most native English speakers would pronounced this as it sounds in "jar", whereas the true pronunciation is closer to "ya" in my experience This is a case where English speakers are explicitly the target audience That author used an abysmally bad example The word "ja" is rarely ever included in English dictionaries
- Difference between How are you? and How are you doing?
Here's an example from a rap song: Hey how ya doin'? Sorry ya can't get through Why don't you leave your name And your number And I'll get back to you Ring Ring Ring ( Ha Ha Hey) De La Soul Now, "How do you do?" is a set phrase in formal English and is considered as old-fashioned When you met someone for the first time you would say "How do
- 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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