Was vs Yas - What's the difference?
was | yas |
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(proscribed, dialect) .
* 1913 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt
(colloquial)
* 2001 , Darrel Rachel, The Magnolias Still Bloom (page 104)
* {{quote-book, year=1862, author=Various, title=The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862, chapter=, edition=
, passage='Oh! yas , I smokes; but I durned sight d'ruther chaw.' }}
* {{quote-book, year=1904, author=O. Henry, title=Cabbages and Kings, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Yas', ' yas !" they cried, with broader grins and many nods. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Horace Annesley Vachell, title=Bunch Grass, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It's nice, yas , and it's paid for. }}
As a determiner was
is your (plural and polite).As an interjection yas is
.As a pronoun yas is
.was
English
Verb
(head)- "Was you outside the Bank of England, sir?"
- “What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.”
Derived terms
* *See also
* am * are * is * art * be * being * been * beest * wast * were * wert * woz * wuzStatistics
*yas
English
Interjection
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