Aya vs Aza - What's the difference?
aya | aza |
(archaic, dialect, New England) yes; yea; aye.
* 1938 , Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts , Coward-McCann and Samuel French (1965), ISBN 0743223136:
*:“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”
* 2001 , David McCullough, John Adams , Simon & Schuster (2001), ISBN 0573613494:
*:“And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”
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(chemistry) Used attributively for a nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring
* 2003 , Heinrich Zollinger, Color Chemistry [http://books.google.com/books?id=0Ynge4E5rqYC], ISBN 3906390233, page 73:
As an adverb aya
is there, over there.As a noun aza is
(chemistry) used attributively for a nitrogen atom substituted for a carbon atom within a ring.aya
English
Adverb
(-)aza
English
Noun
(-)- "However, aza N-atoms (~N=) have to be counted, if they replace methine groups in the chain."