How to pronounce yay
Listen to yay in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“yay” in real sentences
576 clips in the index · 105 American · 12 British · 13 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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"Yay," the girls all yelled.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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position it's an endless yay saying to more of everything it's an endless yay
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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so much of course yay yay but we hope to see you around again soon i
It's Akeila · hear it here
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awards are relatively small they represent a new frontier for medical marijuana research yay yay um
WeCan 702 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of yay. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.