A personal pet peeve: The difference between yea and yeah

expatriot

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:33 AM
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A personal pet peeve: The difference between yea and yeah

For some reason it really kills me how otherwise super-intelligent people interchange the spellings of yea and yeah as if they don't care.

yea rhymes with day as in yippee!
yeah rhymes with the a sound in flat as in yeah, man... that rocks...

GET IT RIGHT! Man it bugs me.

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Pithlet

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:39 AM
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1. Stuff like that bugs me, too.

I can't help it.

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bling bling

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:40 AM
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2. yea, I hate that too.

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expatriot

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:48 AM
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6. QUIT TOYING WITH ME!!!!!

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bling bling

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:01 AM
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11. Sorry.

Couldn't resist.

I can't really call it a pet peeve, but it makes me laugh when people use expressions that are totally wrong but sound like the correct version.

For example,

"I'd just assume get take-out as go out to dinner." (instead of as soon).

Or, the other day, a woman sent me an e-mail that said,

"Now, keep im mine that I have over 15 years of experience..." (instead of keep in mind).

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jdj

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:41 AM
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3. well their just doing it because there lazy.

Edited on Fri Mar-25-05 02:43 AM by jdj

sorry, couldn't resist the pull of bad grammar.

edit: try not too take it two personally.

(this is kind of fun.)

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imenja

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:43 AM
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4. my, you're easily irritated

yea you sure are.

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expatriot

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:48 AM
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7. YOU THINK IT'S JUST ALL FUN AND GAMES, BUB?!?!?!?!?!?

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imenja

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:59 AM
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9. yea, I do

:evilgrin:

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caledesi

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:44 AM
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5. One of my pet peeves also, as well as the ubiquitous

LOOSE meaning LOSE. Drives me nuts. Yeah, I am sick.

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Fridays Child

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Fri Mar-25-05 02:56 AM
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8. Yea, verily.

Now, could we discus hee hee as opposed to hehe?

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imenja

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:00 AM
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10. you know you never should have brought this up

because everyone will deliberately misuse the two from here on out.

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Bouncy Ball

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:03 AM
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12. No "yea" is "yay"

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Snap

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Fri Mar-25-05 06:56 AM
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23. Bingo

Yea

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pamela

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:04 AM
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13. It's a pet peeve of mine, too, but...

I don't think yea is the correct word for yippee. Yea is old English for yes. Yay is the correct spelling for the yippee type exclamation. I could be wrong, though.

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sandnsea

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:06 AM
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14. yea rhymes with yippee???

Yeah, yea rhymes with day, but where does yippee figure in? :shrug:

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pamela

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:34 AM
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15. I think he means that yippee is the definition for yea.

Edited on Fri Mar-25-05 03:35 AM by pamela

I still think that yea (rhymes with day) is Old English for yes; Yeah (rhymes with first syllable of weather) means yes, yup or uh-huh and yay (also rhymes with day) means yippee or hurray. As in "Yea verily, I say unto you that, yeah, Bush is a pig but someday he'll be gone and we can all say Yay!"

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sandnsea

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Fri Mar-25-05 03:39 AM
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16. Oh, I see

I think you're right.

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Hatalles

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:09 AM
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17. Now what if I said "ya?"

That would be acceptable, ja?

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Solly Mack

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:18 AM
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18. and then there's the french forte verses the italian forte

one meaning his/her specialty and the other to do with music

one pronounced for-tay and the other pronounced fort...

and people always screw them around and say "fishing is his for-TAY" when they mean the french FORT...and I wrinkle my nose when they do

and yeah, I know it's become acceptable to pronounce it as "for-tay"...but it's still wrong. :)

but that's just me :)

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Borgnine

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:22 AM
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19. Oh GOD yes.

That pisses the shit out of me. Of course, the Internet is full of this crap.

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Phentex

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Fri Mar-25-05 04:22 AM
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20. I like YAY for yea. No confusion there!

YAY! yay! YAAAAAAAAAY!

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orleans

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Fri Mar-25-05 05:17 AM
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21. hip hip hooray

yea rhymes with day

yeah, i think maybe now i can differentiate

i'll try to remember this next time i unintentionally screw up the english language

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Robeson

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Fri Mar-25-05 05:23 AM
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22. Me thinks that THEE are too anal.....

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