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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
The "ya" is well established in the Midwest due to the accents inherited by the northern European immigrants The same goes for the urban population which has retained many southern speech tendencies
- 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
- phrase requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the colloquial or spoken American English (AmE) form of 'What do you think?'? Is it "What'you think" or "What'ya think?"?
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
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