What's the difference between yay and yeah?

Yay


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s a gentler symbolism than: ‘Yay, we’ve all left the BBC!’ Because we all love the BBC.” At an estimated cost of £160m for three series, the Grand Tour is also symbolic of the changes in the global TV industry.
  • (2) The iconic show that gave Americans Chico Escuela (“baseball’s been berry berry good to me”) in the 1970s (yay, stereotypes!)
  • (3) Yay me, I cheered, only for my cheer to catch in my throat and turn into a scream of horror when someone innocently showed me a magazine feature about Ms Deschanel’s style.
  • (4) When asked by the Hollywood Reporter how the Chinese film industry had reacted to that speech, Feng said: "Within the Guild everyone was like, 'Yay!
  • (5) In these and all other species for which there are data, 5' termini map to sequences that contain the trinucleotide YAY.
  • (6) As Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor who has been a formative voice on gun controls , put it this week: "Everyone is going to have to stand up and say yay or nay.
  • (7) Out of the many stories in this collection my top two would HAVE to be The World’s Greatest Teen Detective by Derek Landy (Yay Skulduggery Pleasant!)
  • (8) • As brilliant as the Channel 4 presentation of Die Hard will be, for me the definitive version is the first version I saw, on ITV in the early 1990s – the one where Bruce Willis says "Yippee-ki-yay, kimosabe."
  • (9) Just yay!” tweeted Douglas Carswell , the Ukip MP when news of Corbyn’s polling result broke, while rightwing commentators urged Conservatives to register as Labour supporters to get him elected, under the banner #ToriesforCorbyn.
  • (10) 12.26am BST Erica (@ebrandt41) @GdnUSsports @NotCoachTito @LengelDavid yay!
  • (11) The scantily clad, aggressive, barbecuing narcissists will head indoors allowing us to – yay!
  • (12) So now you can grind your teeth in frustration, or go "yay!
  • (13) Would one want perhaps to look at some sort of judicial figure who might say yay or nay?"

Yeah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (2) Yeah, just being dead made more sense than being alive.
  • (3) Did you make them get out of the car?” I said “Well, yeah,” she said, looking confused.
  • (4) 3.19am BST Pacers 49-66 Heat - 4:47 remaining, 3rd quarter So yeah, this is not how Indiana wanted to start things.
  • (5) I’d have been a TV celeb type, done these albums that are nonsense – and yeah, with hindsight, that wouldn’t have been a bad idea.
  • (6) I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m scary, I’ll fuckin’ scare you then.
  • (7) His support, he claimed, was due to admiration of Corbyn’s campaigning history (“I saw some sick picture of him from back in the day when he was campaigning about anti-apartheid and I thought: ‘Yeah, I like your energy’”) as well as the fact that he seemed to express concern for segments of society that other parties don’t (“I feel like he gets what the ethnic minorities are going through and the homeless and the working class”).
  • (8) But yeah, it's all a question of degree and perspective, isn't it?"
  • (9) And I always go, yeah, but you don’t decide to be a transvestite when you’re a sophisticated adult – you’re a child.
  • (10) They wanted to know if Marsha P Johnson was going to be a part of the movie and I was like, ‘Yeah!
  • (11) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (12) Yeah, here's a thing that's not entirely impossible.
  • (13) Obligatory indie section is obligatory Yeah, but there was some good stuff in Microsoft's blipvert run-through of indie titles – all coming to the console courtesy of the ID@Xbox programme, which seeks to help smaller studios make and distribute games on the platform.
  • (14) Yet somehow Yeah Yeah Yeahs are still together and doing their best to wrong-foot their fans 3.
  • (15) Yeah, as I said, come back from the dead.” I have managed to get my hands on some of the correspondence that’s been going back and forth, and can give you a sneak preview of the ideas.
  • (16) "Yeah, they pay you a fee, a nominal fee," Noth told the Guardian.
  • (17) When he came back in January, he said to me, 'Yeah, they [the local Afghans] had their first market in five years last week.
  • (18) When we seen the things happening in Tottenham, everyone just clicked and said, 'Yeah that's our chance.
  • (19) "Oh yeah, she's still massively important," he says, citing her strong connections with the underground and her instinct for sniffing out cutting-edge collaborators as reasons for continuing to take her work seriously.
  • (20) … like I feel like I haven't [been] given the same opportunities and chances as other people have … because at the end of day, yeah, maybe I have got a bit of hate in my heart … against the authority … Like I'm not scared of the police … I don't give a fuck about them, that's not gonna stop me, like if I was scared of the police like, I wouldn't have been able to survive.

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