Yea or Nay in Voting Yea and nay are often used in a spoken context for voting. The United States Senate still uses these two words for their roll call votes. When a senator’s name is called during a roll call vote, they will express an affirmative vote by saying “yea” or a ne...
Yay or nay to vouchers? I vote ...Lee Benson Deseret Morning News
Hey, everyone, let’s vote. Do you vote yea or nay? “Yea” sounds like may, hay or even yay (which we’ll get to in a minute), but it means an old-fashioned “yes.” It is the oldest of the collection and was the root of all versions of yes words today. “Yeah”, which...
Examples of yea, yeah, and yay The lawmaker then presses one of three buttons marked ‘yea,’‘nay’ or ‘present,’ and the vote is recorded. The New York Times Yeah, in that period, the ’60s and ’70s, he would not have been the writer whose work you’d have guessed would ...
Examples of yea, yeah, and yay The lawmaker then presses one of three buttons marked ‘yea,’‘nay’ or ‘present,’ and the vote is recorded. The New York Times Yeah, in that period, the ’60s and ’70s, he would not have been the writer whose work you’d have guessed would ...