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Another fun one that I'm definitely guilty of as a native Californian is "no yea" for "yes" and "yea no" for "no". I do it without thinking all the time and am always shocked that no one ever questions what I mean.


the lexicon valley podcast did an episode on this.

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/0...

(the discussion starts a bit before six minutes in)




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