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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Why is you all contracted to yall and not youll?
Ya'll, I have heard from grammatically correct Southern friends, was a version of you, while all y'all was the form for you all (i e plural) But either way, the sooner this thing dies from the English language, the better
- What is the origin of the expression ya think?
2 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?
- 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
- What exactly is Imma? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In 2010, linguist Neal Whitman wrote it's the Prime Time for "Imma" commenting on its use in pop lyrics In fact, this Imma (also spelled I'ma, I'mma, Ima, and I'm a) is not the contraction I'm followed by a, but a contraction of I'm gonna — which, of course, is a contraction of I'm going to, which is itself a contraction of I am going to The progression from I'm gonna to Imma involves two
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