How do you pronounce yigh?

The recorded pronunciation is /jaɪ/.

yigh

/jaɪ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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British usage

"But, of course, both yigh and nay operate typically across sentence or utterance boundaries between two speakers, as: Person A. /a kɔɵnt dʏː ɪt/ ‘I can’t do it.’ Person B. /jaɪ ðɛ kɔn/ ‘Yigh (oh yes), thou can!’"

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