{"id":149856,"date":"2023-08-13T06:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149856"},"modified":"2023-08-13T06:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T14:37:20","slug":"why-do-some-people-end-their-sentences-in-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=149856","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Some People End Their Sentences In ‘Yeah’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Quora<\/a>: “Most British people don\u2019t say Yeah at the end of a sentence. It would be most prevalent in certain dialects in South Eastern England. It is used as a affirmation of the sentence it ends, or the series of sentences that precedes it use, making a statement, to confirm that the listener understands what has been said. It is often used a a question requiring a response from the listener. \u201cThat was a great match, yeah.\u201d Is actually a question and yeah would replace \u201cdo you agree?\u201d or \u201cwasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Other dialects use other forms in a similar way. The Lothian\/Edinburgh\/East of Scotland, for example, uses the eh sound in a similar sense that yeah is used. \u201cThat was a great match, eh\u201d. The word \u201cKen\u201d meaning \u201cdo you understand?\u201d often replaces or is used interchangeably with \u201ceh\u201d in that dialect. Other dialects around the British isles use different words for the same linguistic purposes. Yeah is not all that common.”<\/p>\n