Well cripes, I say yah. Of course, I also say yeh, yee, yuh, ayuh, yeah, yuh-huh, and (when I’m not thinking about it) ouais.
Does that make me posh, or just someone who talks funny?
Download one of these and blast it out your door when he’s doing his thing:
http://www.dws.org/sousa/mp2/fairosb.mp2
No, they’re called yahs as its the easiest way to categorise them. Other defining features are:
Males dress like Prince William (shirt under Ralph Lauren jumper). Females permanently wear scarves. It was hot enough here on Sunday for me to get horribly sunburnt, yet there were still people wearing scarves 
Completely oblivious to the people around them. As is evidenced by the guy who answers phone in a voice that can be heard in Barcelona.
Pays for even the smallest item with [daddys] credit card.
Most annoying accent ever. This takes the sterotypical English accent to the extreme, and then some.
Completely oblivious to how annoying their constant rabbitting on about England is. I’m not Scottish myself, but I’m aware that there’s a rivalry between Scotland and England, and the constant put downs by Englush yahs on the quality of Scottish football and rugby compared to their English counterparts starts to grate even to my ears.
See anyone who is not from Middle England / north of Watford as inferior.
I could go on, but you get the picture. Needless to say, “yahs” aren’t very popular.
You in Pollock Halls, by any chance?
(Ah. Fond memories. Mostly involving too much drinking, too many romantic disappointments, and being kicked up the bum by drunken agrics, but fond memories nonetheless.)
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Question from a United Statesian: are toffs the same thing as yahs?
Can I sound more authentic by calling them “bloody toffs?”
Do Australians call them “toffies?”
That’s just what I’m confused about. I know everyone over there doesn’t talk the same way, so I don’t know what you mean by ‘typical English accent’. Should I be imagining the way Prince William talks, as well as the way he dresses?
Or should I be thinking of BBC announcers? Wallace and Gromit (probably not, that last one, I know).
Having spent three years in one of the toffiest colleges of Cambridge, I think that you should count yourself lucky. Once you’ve been accosted in a bar by a six-foot-seven double-barrelled rowing and quaffing shed demanding, “Do you know who I am?”… well… overheard mobile phone conversations will seem very underwhelming indeed.
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You went to Magdalene, kabbes, you brought it on yourself.
(six seven boatie? Not Seb Dogs Bollocks?)
Toffs are a subset of yahs. Yahs are basically middle class. I suppose the American equivalent of a yah would be the characters portrayed in things like “Clueless”. Toffs are usually upper middle class / upper classes, and make sure eveyone knows it.
“Lost your ID, have you?”
“Can’t remember where you live?”
“No, but if you hum a few bars, I’ll fake the rest.”
My god! Yes! Fuck me, but he was annoying.
(Hence the word “shed”, incidentally. “Seb” = “Shed”. Ho ho.)
As I remember, my nails Glaswegian friend said something along the lines of, “Yeah, but you better pray that I don’t know where you live.”
No, they say “Yah” instead of “Yes”. That makes it all the more irritating. Combine that with AQ intonation for maximum effect, yah?
Anyway, I don’t know what +MDI is complaining about. Your toff is obviously a very important person having very important phone calls, so it’s very important that as many people know this. Now hush your mouth, you pleb, yah?.
He sounds like a pig, so I bet he eats out of a trough.
I’ve had similar problems, the 'ol death threat worked for me. Perhaps not the smartest thing, but just saying.
This made me almost fall off my chair laughing. Why? Because the last photo I saw of Prince William was this one.
My sympathies.