Scribes would wipe off their "pen" (a quill), say a quick prayer, and only then would they dip the quill into the ink and write YHWH (pronounced Yah' way--Yahweh), which word they were not …

2011年6月17日 · 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".

2011年4月12日 · The word yahoo can be used in English in the same way you mention, that is, as a cheer. In fact, some commercials for the company Yahoo! actually ends with someone …

We went to their— their quarters. We tried. I mean I tried. But she was having twoubles." The next-earliest is from Printers' Ink, volume 243 (1953): You clear away a pile of proofs yea high, …

2010年8月13日 · It's "yea" both for voting (Yea or Nay) and as an exclamation (Yea!). In both cases, it signifies affirmation.

2018年7月26日 · This pronunciation isn't peculiar to that region—it's virtually universal in US speech. As Kate Bunting and user070221 say, the vowel in unstressed you will usually be …

Yes is not a formal word; you can use it in both formal and informal contexts.. Looking at the definitions given for yeah, yeh, yep, or yup, all those words are defined as exclamation & noun …

2012年12月6日 · In its straightforward form, it's just a request for affirmation. And it's probably impossible to gauge when the ironical version crept in and took over. Nevertheless, an NGram …

2011年2月3日 · Irony is the use of a word or phrase to mean exactly the opposite of its literal sense. Here it would also qualify as sarcasm. It would be understood to mean "No f@$*ing …

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