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From: dpn@panda.UUCP (Dr. Time)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Boo for "Yea!"
Message-ID: <662@panda.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 22:54:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 22:54:27 1985
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In article <881@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) writes:
>From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
>Message-ID: <2174@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
> 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).

Yeah!



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