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I know I'm supposed to be a writer, of some kind but I can never seem to get the Yay, yea, and Yeah,'s right. Which means what? Please help. i've been going crazy over this for the past 2 years.
A.A.
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Yea, Yay, Yeah
Yea is a formal or religious affirmation or exhortation:
"Call the yeas and nays, please."
"Yea, the eagle hath landed."
"Yea, this generation is indeed blessed."
Rhymes with "Yay!" but with more of a glide in some accents, but never like yeah.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yea
Yay is a cheer:
"School will be closed tomorrow."
"Yay!"
Rhymes with Hay.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yay
Yeah is a casual assent or affirmation.
"Are you going to school?"
Yeah, I guess.
Rhymes with itself.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/yeah
You can hear samples at the links.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Yay, thank you
Thank you Puddin'
She Loves You
. . .and you know that can't be bad.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
whooooooooooo!
She loves you yeah yeah yeah ...
So I grew up with the Beatles?Wanna make something of it?
P.S. Marylyn Monroe would have turned 83 on June first, making her the same age a Matlock AKA Andy Grifith. Mom would have turned 83 one month from today, on July 03. We are less than two weeks from the anniversary of her death so if I get a bit maudlin in future, you'll understand.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Very droll...
The word has the distinction of being one of the relatively few words in English that has no obvious* rhyme. The most famous other is "silver," unless you rhyme it with "quicksilver," which seems a bit** like cheating, although there are others that Meems might have trouble with.***
Cheers,
Puddin'
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* Interestingly, most of the non-obvious rhymes also express an attitude or emotion. There's probably a thesis in there somewhere.
** More than a bit, actually, as "true" rhymes aren't supposed to share too many syllables with the same spelling.
*** Rhymes tend to appear and disappear when one shifts between regional accents, as many, for example, rhyme pork with fork, pin with pen, palm with Pom, and other "perfect" pairs that strike others as hilarious mistakes. Scholars trying to reconstruct ancient written languages quite often study poetry, or rhyming dictionaries, written in these languages, to tease out now forgotten pronunciations. One can tell, for example, if you see "iron" rhymed with "ion," that you're likely dealing with a poet whose accent was "non-rhotic," from which we can deduce that a largish number if emigrants from England (loosely defined) to the USA in the Colonial period were from the West Country, since most of the USA (except the American South -- where many came from the London, and other centres of wealth and power, whose accent was derived mostly from the Midlands, from whence in turn we derive Received Pronunciation) is rhotic. We've all of us lost a lot of r's over the centuries. The "bass" one finds at the end of a fishing line was at one time a "barse."
We're most of us a little flummoxed by r's, and they tend to creep in or disappear depending on what we're saying and how fast we're saying it. Many of us who throw up our hands in horror at the "idears" of Boston, preferring our own "ideas," none-the-less may find an intrusive r sneaking in by the back door when we say a phrase like "Julia and Mary," because of the close juxtaposition of two schwa sounds (uh) and the end of "Julia" and the beginning of "and." The alternative is a glottal stop, which many find difficult to pronounce.
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Purlpe and orange
Don't have rhymes. (some say "urple" rhymes with purple. I say that's pushing too hard.)
Purple prose...
Here's a tidbit from a web site:
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Hirple is a British word, which means "to walk lamely or hobble".
Curple is a word out of Scotland, which refers to the hindquarters of a horse. The current Shorter OED lists 'curple' dating from 1591.
Perhaps "nurple" could also be said to rhyme with purple, but I can't find any indication that Nurple is a proper English word. However, there exists such a drink as a "Purple Nurple", and a web site, nurple.com, that uses 'nurple' as a tag word. When does a made-up word enter proper usage? Who draws that line?
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
What's wrong with...
Burple or Blurple? Not recognized in any dictionary I'm aware of, however I've seen both used to refer to a bluish purple by folks that are trying to be "cute". :-)
Orange you glad you asked?
In some accents, Orange rhymes with Blancmange*, and there's a hill in Wales named Blorenge.
Another try might be found in sporange, the fruiting body of certain spore-producing plants and fungi.
Silver, the other famous one, also rhymes with chilver, a term of art in the sheep herding trade.
All of these are heavily dependent on local accent, since they're rare enough that "local" pronunciation varies widely, and most people not fans of crossword puzzles have never heard of them. Well, except for blancmange, and that tends to be a local speciality of bits in Jolly Olde Englande.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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* pronounced *blamange*, so it's not as much of a reach as it seems.
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Accent on the orange
Sad to say, in my own home accent, Arkansas hillfolk, orange rhymes with hinge and syringe. :) "Aw-ringe" if you can't imagine how that would work. :)
Roger Miller once rhymed purple with maple syrple. :)
Silver is a near-rhyme with palver, a Westernism, an elision of palaver meaning "a talk, to talk". There's also that movie-maker Olver Stone. :) A schwa in a middle syllable between two voiced non-plosive consonants tends to disappear in speech. Japanese and Russian both have the same phenomenon in some accents.
And pilfer is a near rhyme because the difference between lf and lv between vowels is very tiny and nearly non-existent the way most people say them in rapid speech. Lots of Americans do not add the puff of air that goes with an f in that situation.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Sad to say?
Not at all. Arkansas hill speech is a national treasure, the closest thing we have here to the Elizabethan vernacular of Shakespeare and Marlowe, and much of their actual language and culture. Sadly, this rich heritage is being lost, as those still alive when it was a living heritage are dying, and young people these days are talking more and more like the people they see and hear on TV.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Yeah...
...rhymes (for most people) with "feh," "pah" (pronounced "peh," roughly like feh, but not Yiddish. Shakespeare uses the word in two of his plays), "nyeah" (like yeah, but with much less enthusiasm), and "eh," (not like the crisp way the Canadians say it, but the way Valley Girls in the Seventies and Eighties said it)
The trick here is that most people don't think these are words, but only "sloppy" pronunciations of "real" words, which is obviously untrue, since no one who uses any of them has any trouble using other forms in other contexts.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Easy...
I've heard folks pronounce it Eee-Zee and Eas-Eee...
By meaning, I'd think the latter more correct (It's certainly not a Zee (like the Tapan Zee). But, I'm a maroon anyway. :-)
Annette