2012年1月31日 · “Ay-ay-ay” is an exclamation which entered American pop culture from Mexican Spanish in various ways. In informal conversation, the phrase means literally “oh, oh, oh” and …

2010年8月13日 · 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 …

2014年10月21日 · The most likely hypothesis is that it is from a, ay, an word meaning "ever" in older English (vide Oxford English Dictionary); but there appears to be no consensus. – …

NOAD defines yay as follows: yay (adv.) informal (with adjectives of measure) so; to this extent : I knew him when he was yay big. ORIGIN 1960s: probably a variant of the adverb yea. NOAD's …

2016年1月3日 · I’ve seen pretty often in phonetic transcriptions for English speakers who weren’t familiar with the IPA the phoneme /e/ or /ɛ/ transcribed as ay: Here "lejos" (/'le.xos/) is …

The pretty wretch left crying and said “ay.” The dictionary entry that comes first has this to say about "ay": [ey] adverb, Archaic. ever; always. The one that says it is a variant of "aye" is third …

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 …

2013年1月3日 · I am curious as to why "nay" replaces the simple unequivocal "no" in the context of voting. My research in Merriam-Webster tells me that "nay" means "no" (not the other way …

This takes place early in the morning, so she could be the rising sun. But sea shanties are work songs so it is more likely to refer to raising the very heavy main sail and the gaff (cross beam) …

I don't actually think we need to compare to German and Dutch, since so many earlier forms in English are attested, but in any case the cognate words are German jeder (IPA /ˈjeːdɐ/, …