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~✿Julia✿~
Recently I met such an exclamation as "Yay!" What's the origin of this? And what are synonyms? Is it sort of "Hurrah!" ?
Aug 6, 2008 4:57 PM
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Yay! = Yes! It's like with the many forms of "hello", "hey" and "hi". They transform over time with different generations.
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