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How do you pronounce ''yeah''?
Posted: 2005-10-07, 21:22
by SpaceFlight
I pronounce it /jE/, with the ''e'' sound in ''yet''.
Posted: 2005-10-07, 21:25
by Egein
I say [jɛ̤]
Posted: 2005-10-07, 22:12
by Strigo
I pronounce it like spaceflight.
Posted: 2005-10-07, 22:29
by Ariki
shouldn't this be in the English forum
?
Posted: 2005-10-07, 22:47
by toffte
Awesome dialect Daniel. What dialect is it you're speaking?
Re: How do you pronounce ''yeah''?
Posted: 2005-10-07, 23:35
by Gormur
SpaceFlight wrote:I pronounce it /jE/, with the ''e'' sound in ''yet''.
I pronounce it [jA] or something similar to [ja].
In North Dakota, most people (that I know anyway) write it as "ya". That's the way I've always written it, and only recently learned the spelling "yeah".
Posted: 2005-10-08, 1:49
by Rom
I pronounce with the same vowel as in 'bat' although sometimes it comes out more like 'ja'. I've never heard it as 'je' before. That's a new one for me.
Posted: 2005-10-08, 3:27
by amoeba
I knew a girl from New Jersey and she would pronounce it like 'je'. Here people use the same 'a' as in 'bat', but it's stronger. It almost sounds like 'ijaaaa'. Think of a donkey.
Posted: 2005-10-08, 3:39
by Mulder-21
Now, I'm no native English speaker, but I pronunced sorta like [jEa:], which is the same was as the Faroese word for yes: ja [jEa:]
Posted: 2005-10-08, 4:24
by Kirk
I pronounce it [j{] or [ja].
Posted: 2005-10-08, 14:44
by ZombiekE
Most times I say [ja].
Posted: 2005-10-08, 15:25
by allemaalmeezinge
Strigo wrote:I pronounce it like spaceflight.
What the ...?
Posted: 2005-10-08, 21:42
by Gormur
Rom wrote:I've never heard it as 'je' before.
Neither have I. [je] as in [jet] without a "t"?
Posted: 2005-10-09, 2:44
by amoeba
Posted: 2005-10-09, 3:32
by Kazimer
Daniel wrote:yabba wrote:Strigo wrote:I pronounce it like spaceflight.
What the ...?
Daniel: Hey, Carlos! Would you like some ice cream?
Strigo: Spaceflight!!!
Can't breath!
I pronounce it like
jæ.
Posted: 2005-10-09, 12:18
by Alcadras
the same with me
Posted: 2005-10-09, 13:40
by Stan
I pronounce it /jæ/
Posted: 2005-10-09, 18:01
by Gormur
Speaking of which, what about "jah" with (sucking in air) aspiration? We use this sound a lot in my family. It comes from Norwegian.
How did you record that file, amoeba? Thanks.
Posted: 2005-10-09, 18:35
by amoeba
Gormur wrote:How did you record that file, amoeba? Thanks.
I used a microphone and the 'Sound Recorder' program on Windows. Then I uploaded the file to
http://www.putfile.com/ (it's free).
Posted: 2005-10-09, 23:18
by Travis B.
Gormur wrote:Speaking of which, what about "jah" with (sucking in air) aspiration? We use this sound a lot in my family. It comes from Norwegian.
In addition to having "yeah" in my dialect, pronounced /jæ/ -> [jæ] approaching /jɛ/, I also have a word in my dialect which might be written as "yah" in English orthography, which is pronounced like German "ja", pronounced /ja/ -> [ja] (
not [jɑ], even though [ɑ] is used in most cases for /ɑ/ in my dialect and there are probably only one or two instances of a separate /a/ in my dialect, of which this is one). Note though that "yah" is not exactly synonymous with "yeah" in it, as it is often used as a strong affirmative rather than as a weak affirmative, when stressed, whereas "yeah" in my dialect is almost always a weak affirmative.