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Topic	PSA: It's YEA or nay, NOT yay or nay
0AbsoluteZero0 07/17/18 11:21:57 PM #15:	Joelypoely posted... Yay: "Expressing triumph, approval, or encouragement." Yay or Nay is also correct. Wrong. There were no examples of yay being used for yea at the Corpus of Contemporary American English... Only Collins English Dictionary has an entry for yay, and its only for the exclamatory sense... given that there is an unimpeachable substitute, I dont recommend that anyone use it. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/817/is-yay-or-nay-an-acceptable-alternative-to-yea-or-nay --- -The Admirable <cite>0AbsoluteZero0 posted [p:905271793] in PSA: It... [t:76811521]...</cite> <quote><cite>Joelypoely posted...</cite> <quote>Yay: "Expressing triumph, approval, or encouragement." Yay or Nay is also correct.</quote> Wrong. There were no examples of yay being used for yea at the Corpus of Contemporary American English... Only Collins English Dictionary has an entry for yay, and its only for the exclamatory sense... given that there is an unimpeachable substitute, I dont recommend that anyone use it. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/817/is-yay-or-nay-an-acceptable-alternative-to-yea-or-nay --- -The Admirable</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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