Looking at the definitions given for yeah, yeh, yep, or yup, all those words are defined as exclamation & noun nonstandard spelling of yes, representing informal pronunciation. Looking …

Jan 29, 2014 · Thus, the Greek spelling for "Jesus" was Ιησους, pronounced something like "Yeh-SOOS", and the Latin likewise was Iesus. Subsequently, in the Latin alphabet the letter J was …

So, my brother is watching on tv a vote a in the American Congress. He says that the members are asked to vote with yea/nay (I have heard that from the Chamber of Commons in the UK as …

Is "yay or nay" an acceptable alternative to "yea or nay"? I have seen it several times in recent weeks, enough to make me wonder whether it is an emerging usage or just a common typo.

The expression is actually (or originally) " yea big " or " yea high " where yea essentially means this. Wiktionary has an entry for yea: Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture) …

Jan 31, 2012 · The phrase that's spoken when someone is hand-wringing about a thorny problem. Speaker One: Uh-oh -- we have to reformat ALL THE DOCUMENTS! Speaker Two: Aye Yai …

Apr 28, 2015 · Passive aggressive people will sometimes veil insulting, critical, derogatory or generally aggressive comments with humor. The patina of humor makes the comment seem …

Nov 24, 2010 · I see these two expressions are used almost identically in different contexts. Is there a difference between I have got and I have gotten?

Aug 13, 2010 · The greeting How are you? is asking How are you doing in general? — How are you? I'm well. [Misunderstood the question.] because well as an adjective which means: in …

Wikipedia has a decent article on past tenses that explains a lot of this. To summarise: "They didn't start yet" is the negative form of the simple past, "They started." In the positive form it …