Talk:yah

RFV

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RFV-sense "African American Vernacular for 'here'". The quotation given is of the phrase "kum ba yah", which is Gullah ({{gul}}), not English ({{en}}). Although it can be argued that the whole phrase has been borrowed into English (with a different meaning than it has in Gullah), the parts are not standalone English words any more than "nucléaire" is an English word just because "avertissement nucléaire" supposedly is. (Then again, see the RFD discussion of -oth and -os. But that is tangential.) Can this be cited outside of the phrase "kum ba yah" and variants thereof? - -sche (discuss) 22:41, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I've heard someone saying just "kum ba" to his daughter. I always assumed that it was a three-word phrase, from some West African language, but apparently it's just English with less consonants? Soap (talk) 02:54, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Pretty much. - -sche (discuss) 07:38, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 07:38, 7 February 2013 (UTC)