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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Y’ll = (This spelling not list in English.)

ออกเสียง You-all = ‘yoo-AWL’ or ‘YAWL’

ออกเสียง Ye = ‘YEE’

ออกเสียง yeah = ‘YIA’

ออกเสียง yey = ‘YEY’

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,

Y’ALL variant of you-all

Our Living Language

Perhaps the single most famous

feature of Southern United States dialects

is the pronoun y'all, a more familiar

and informal form of you-all, a second person plural pronoun.

But while the two forms share this plural function,

y'all is a more versatile pronoun that is used

in a variety of situations in which you-all is not.

Y'all is sometimes used in speaking to a single person,

leading to the mistaken belief that

it also functions as a second person singular pronoun.

Language researcher Michael Montgomery has identified

a number of situations in which

y'all is used as a unique pronoun rather than

as a simple contraction of you-all:

1. The "associative" plural, meaning

    "you as an individual and also your family or associates,"

    as in What are y'all doing for vacation this year?

2. The "institutional" plural,

when an individual representing a business or organization

is addressed as a representative of other unknown

or indeterminable individuals.

For example, someone calls a store and asks

Do y'all have marine paint?

Here the meaning is

"you as an individual and the others working there."

1. 1. The "potential" plural that is equivalent to one of you or anyone,

as in Did y'all take out the trash?

when asking not whether a specific individual has taken out the trash, but whether someone in the household has taken out the trash,

that is, whether the trash has been taken out.

1. 2. The "everybody" plural, as in greetings and partings,

for example when a teacher says

Good morning (or Goodbye) y'all

to a room full of students.

You-all is not used in these situations.

Other varieties of American English have their own forms

of you that indicate plural meaning:

you-uns, youse, and you guys or youse guys.

Youse is common in vernacular varieties in the Northeast,

particularly in large cities such as New York and Boston,

and is also common in Irish English.

You-uns is found in western Pennsylvania and in the Appalachians

and probably reflects the Scotch-Irish roots of many

European settlers to these regions.

You guys and youse appear to be newer innovations

than the other dialectal forms of plural you.

You guys has been adopted all over the country and is used even in the South.

Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary

Ya’ll

“How y’all doin’?”

If you are rendering this common Southernism in print,

be carefulwhere you place the apostrophe,

which stands for the second and third letters in “you.”

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,

Ye

Usage Note:

In an attempt to seem quaint or old-fashioned, many store signs

such as "Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe" use spellings that are no longer current.

The word ye in such signs looks identical to

the archaic second plural pronoun ye,

but it is in fact not the same word.

Ye in "Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe" is just an older spelling

of the definite article the.

The y in this ye was never pronounced (y)

but was rather the result of improvisation by early printers.

In Old English and early Middle English,

the sound (th) was represented by the letter thorn (þ).

When printing presses were first set up in England in the 1470s,

the type came from Continental Europe,

where this letter was not in use.

The letter y was used instead because in the handwriting of the day

the loop of the letter thorn was often not connected to the upright,

and so, the thorn looked very similar to y.

So. spellings like y^e for the, y^t or y^at for that,

were not only common but survived into the 1800s.

However, the modern revival of this archaic form of the

has not been accompanied by a revival of the knowledge

of how it was pronounced,

with the result that (yē) is the usual pronunciation today.

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary

usage:

The word ye, as in Ye Olde Booke Shoppe, is simply an archaic spelling

of the definite article the.

The use of the letter Y was a printer's adaptation of the eth, ð,

the character in the Old English alphabet

representing the th- sounds (th) and (t) in Modern English;

Y was the closest symbol in the Roman alphabet.

Originally, the form would have been rendered as yⁿ or y^e.

The pronunciation (yē) today is a spelling pronunciation.

Dictionary.com

What Is The DifferenceBetween “Yea” vs. “Yeah”?

Yeah … these two words seem the same but which one should you use?

Yea vs. yeah

Yea can be used as an informal adverb meaning “yes” or “to affirm,”

or as a noun to indicate an affirmative vote.

When used in a vote, yea can be pronounced like “yay.”

Yea can also be used as an adverb to amplify an adjective

or to say “not only … but also …”

(although, this usage of the word appears to be dated,

and rarely used in modern English or literature).

For example: a good, yea, a delicious cake.

So, what about yeah?

It is an informal adverb that means “yes.”

What is the correct spelling?

The correct spelling of the word depends on

which way you want to use it.

In an informal setting, where it is being used to agree, affirm,

or in the place of the word yes,

yeah is the more modern, preferred, and commonly used version.

If it is being used in a more formal setting, like a job interview,

the formal yes would be the more appropriate choice over yea or yeah.

That may seem a little confusing, but here’s a helpful hint:

in most instances it is yeah that you want.

It is when you are looking to amplify a descriptive word

or vote that yea really comes into play.

OK, here’s a little cheat sheet:

• To affirm, agree, say yes: yea and yeah
• To vote yes: yea and yay (you’re saying this one, not writing it,

so it’s really about the pronunciation here!)

• To amplify an adjective, or to say “not only, but also”:

yea (for example:

This book was a good read, yea, the best I read all year.)

Why are there two spellings?

Chances are you will find yourself using both yea and yeah

in conversation at some point in your life.

With both words having similar pronunciations,

unless you are casting a vote,

nobody will know which version of the word you are using

until you write it down.

Voting is when that extra H makes the most difference.

For example,

it would not be appropriateto vote yeah on a measure,

unless you were looking to register your vote with a touch of sarcasm.

In other words, you should only vote yea

(pronounced similar to the opposing vote of nay)

when looking to cast your votein the positive.

What is the history of these words?

Sometime around the early 1900s, yea and yes became yeah.

While yea (and yes) have been around far longer than the word yeah

(it looks like yea and yes can be traced back to the 900s)

the sentiment has been around forever.

While the three wordsonce meant the same thing,

it appears that the H was added on

to distinguish the two meanings above

and to move the word forwardinto the new century.

There does not seem to be any clear reason

for the addition of the H

other than maybe to modernize the spelling of yea.

Speakers may have just decided that the word,

which is close to 1,300-years-old now, needed a makeover.

All three words are a derivative of Middle English,

and have roots in Old Norseand Gothic.

While you probably do not hear a lot of the old Middle English

(or Old Norse for that matter),

both versions of the informal word for yes

are still commonly used today.

Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary

Ye & the

Those who studythe history of English

know that the word often misread as “ye”in Middle English

is good old “the”spelled with an unfamiliar character called a thorn

which looks vaguely like a “Y”but which is pronounced “TH.”

So, all those quaint shop names beginning

“Ye Olde”are based on a confusion:

people never said “ye” to mean “the.”

However, if you’d rather be cute than historically accurate, go ahead.

Very few people will know any better.

Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary

Ye & yeah & yay

“Yea” is a very old-fashioned formal way of saying “yes,”

used mainlyin voting.

It’s the oppositeof —and rhymes with—“nay.”

When you want to writethe common casual version of “yes,”

the correct spellingis “yeah” (sounds like “yeh”).

When the third grade teacher announced a class trip to the zoo,

we all yelled “yay!” (the opposite of “boo”!).

That was back when I was only yay big.