On 12/06/2011 02:40, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:04:47 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
<andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/11/11, Alix Pexton <alix.dot.pex...@gmail.dot.com> wrote:
On 11/06/2011 06:18, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
We should rename Yes and No to Yay and Nay to make them alignable, and
even more importantly to make us appear as old Englishmen!
"Yay" and "Nay" are too similar looking, but luckily, "Yay" is not
actually a old English word :) A more correct alternative would be
"Aye" (pronounced the same as "eye"), which (along with "Nay") is still
used for some voting actions (such as councillors deciding where to go
for lunch). I myself say it al least 20 times a day :)
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Oh damn, yay is what teenage girls would say, not old Englishmen. My
bad, it really is "Aye". :p
You were phonetically right :) It's yea or nay.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/yea-or-nay
My son's most recent birthday (3 years old) was a farm-themed birthday,
and we asked people to RSVP yay or neigh :P
So I guess there's all kinds of kooky fun you can have with flags...
-Steve
Nope, its definitely Aye when used for voting, (at least it is round
here) as in "all those in favour, say aye", "ayes to the right" and "the
ayes have it". Maybe southerners say this "yea" word of which you speak,
we don't hold with their strange customs in these parts ^^
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