- Whats the origin of saying yoo hoo! to get someones attention?
Oh, Skin-nay; yoo-hoo! Come on over with your sled and run's fast as you can Th' coastin' on Augstin's hill's bully Honest 'tis By 1921, the utterance became the title of a song by vaudevillian Al Jolson, Yoo-hoo, both published and recorded in 1921 Here's the first part of the chorus: You'll hear me call-ing YOO-HOO,
- pronunciation - When to pronounce long u as yoo or ooo - English . . .
Whether u says oo or yoo is determined by whether or not the preceeding consonant is voiced (vibrates the voice box) or unvoiced Some guidelines for when ‘u’ says oo or yoo are: It usually says oo when it follows a voiced consonant (g, j, l, y, s, r, z) It usually says yoo when it follows an unvoiced consonant (b, d, p, c, f
- Why does the pronunciation of U vary in English?
U is "oo" for most American speakers, but "yoo" for most British speakers when it falls in a stressed syllable after one of the following consonants: t d n In an unstressed syllable, "long u" can be pronounced several ways due to vowel reduction: juː , jʊ or jə (or after one of the special consonants mentioned above, uː , ʊ
- may you or can you? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
They are both correct However "can" entails the issue of "possibility" If you ask someone "can you" it is as if you're wondering if they are capable of doing it
- “Do you have” vs “Have you got” - English Language Usage . . .
I found where you got the statistics: the Separated by a Common Language blog And one reason for the discrepancy with Google Ngrams is that "do you have" is rapidly gaining over "have you got" both in the US and the UK, and the British National Corpus was collected a decade or so earlier than the Corpus of Contemporary American English, and this time difference substantially increases the
- What is the origin of the term toots to refer to a woman?
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- What is a good way to remind someone to reply to your email?
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- greetings - Whats an appropriate response to a British person asking . . .
Part of the key to this is matching the length of response to the length of greeting 'y'alright?' or just 'alright' tends to be said as an acknowledgement in passing and mostly isn't a conversation opener or and invitation to stop and chat
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