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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 ...
"Y'all" or "ya'll"? - 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 “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 ...
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 is the origin of the expression "ya think"?
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?
What is the proper usage of "Y'all" in southern American dialects
Living in Texas for the past eight years I have heard the following used over and over: Y'all, y'alls, y'all's, all y'all, all y'alls, and all y'all's. (Think about this — "I bought y'all a yawl.") Can't wait to get back to Minnesota where all y'all have to deal with are ufda, ubetcha, ya shure you bet, don't ya know.
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.
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See you~What does it mean? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
As a stock phrase "See ya!" does in fact mean "Goodbye!" Variations include "Be seeing you" and "See you again soon. " It is a warmly connoted bidding of farewell. It is related to Auf Weidersehen - literally "until (I/we) see (you/each other) again" I suppose one could also see it as short for "I see you," a game one plays with a baby (peek-a-boo) but the farewell is by far the more common case.
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