What is the root word of Yahoo? Is there any truth to the claims by some that it was used by Hebrews as a safe word to use instead of Yahweh?

A somewhat-natural progression from the "I tricked you" meaning is gotcha used as a noun: this is a feature of a system (e.g. a programming language) which trips you up or catches you off-guard. And finally, from the figurative sense of got = "understood", gotcha can be used to mean "Aha, I see now" or "I understand".

2011年4月12日 · In my country, people use the word "Yahoo" as an expression of enthusiasm, joy, jubiliation and victory. What is the origin and original meaning of the word yahoo? As for that matter, what is most

You are correct that "yeah" and "yep" are informal variants of "yes." In conversation among friends, any form is appropriate, but "yep" has a slightly dismissive tone. "Did you find your wallet?" "Yeah, I left it in the other room." As opposed to "Did you get directions to the theater?" "Yep." In the second example, you're implying that you've already got directions and you don't need to spend ...

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) The pony was yea high. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find definitions for this word (with this sense) in any other dictionaries online. Yay is most likely a corruption of yea.

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 common typo.

2018年7月26日 · 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...

2012年12月6日 · 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...

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 well). Now ...

2011年2月3日 · "Yeah, right!" is an example of irony. 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 way!" You would definitely not use it in formal writing, unless that composition was a treatise on slang or some other academic discourse on language.