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Thread #110981   Message #2334446
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
06-May-08 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
Subject: RE: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
Nothing particularly Scottish about the word "Nay". Standard English alternative to "No". Currently more used in the North of England than down South.

"Let Your Yea Be Yea; and Your Nay, Nay"