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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Boo for "Yea!"
Message-ID: <2174@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 06:34:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 06:34:32 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

Recently I've been noticing that no one knows how to spell a cheer
any more.

Cheers are spelled "Yay!"  (As in hip, hip, hurrah!)

Yea! and Yeah! are NOT cheers.
Yea! is a noise you make when you vote in favor of something.
Yeah is currently an informal version of Yes (and goes back to Chaucerian
days, I've been told).

Does anyone in net.nlang have any idea when people started misspelling
"Yay!" as above?  I'd like to know just how much an old fogy to feel.

--Lee Gold