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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
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 does gotcha mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Gotcha actually has several meanings All of them can be derived from the phrase of which this is a phonetic spelling, namely " [I have] got you" Literally, from the sense of got = "caught, obtained", it means "I've caught you" As in, you were falling, and I caught you, or you were running, and I grabbed you It's a short step from the benign type of caught to the red-handed type of caught
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 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
adverbs - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Other questions on this site have established that kindly can be used as a sort of please This usage was in my mind when someone said "Thank you kindly" to me, but "thank you please" doesn't make
Whats the difference between good on you vs. good for you, with a . . . I agree with the above that 'good for you' is used sarcastically at times, while I have never heard 'good on ya' used in that fashion Somehow the latter has more of a chummy comraderie and participatory feel to it and usually is accompanied by a pat on the shoulder But maybe that's just a clutural difference