# Yea, yay, and yeah

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yea-yay-and-yeah/168113>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yea-yay-and-yeah/168113 "2003-04-11T20:45:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yea-yay-and-yeah/168113/21 "2003-04-12T21:53:32Z")

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I’m not the one that says “woohoo.” 😉

And **Lib** , notice it’s “an alteration of ‘yea.’” Still not convinced.

Esprix

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