"Yay long"

[Charles C Doyle]

My students seem largely unaware that a word exists whose spelling is "yea" (you know, when we have the "steak"/"great"/"break" discussion).  I suppose it seems reasonable that the counterpart of "nay" should be "yay."  And "yea" does look like a misspelling of "yeah"!

--Charlie

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