Re: yeah (was Re: Moraic codas)

>Scripsit Thomas Paulus:
>
>> It's [j&:] for me. But when I see "yea" in a literary context
>(Elizabethan
>> dialog, for example), I read it as [jE:@] or even [jei], something
>with
>> relatively higher articulation. Do others make this distinction?
>
>True. I read <yeah> as [j{:] and yea as [jei]. If I ever heard someone
>say "Yeah Verily" then would I like burst merrily into divers peales of
>giggling.
>
>JDM
A friend of mine had a "Yea, verily" phase where he used the phrase in real
life and online as an exclamation of agreement...

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