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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