[Dovecot] Yea[h]

Stewart Dean sdean at bard.edu
Thu Aug 14 15:46:44 EEST 2008


But Timo walks through the valley of the shadow for us all.....so maybe he's 
entitled.....

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> 
>> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> Yea,  ...
>>
>> I've been meaning to tell you that should be "Yeah" for an informal 
>> version of "Yes", otherwise it's a very archaic form of "Yes" or 
>> "Indeed" as in "Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death"!
> 
> 
> Hmm. I've never paid attention to that. Grepping my IRC logs I seem to 
> have used that since the beginning. But I can also see a lot of other 
> people are saying "yea" (but no idea if they're native english 
> speakers). Wikipedia says it's a common misspelling. Perhaps I should 
> try to change it. :)
> 

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