yah

Which always seemed to be answered with something like: “Yah. This swell is gonna be sick.”

“Did yah cry ’cause you lost your sprinkies, Spanky Baby?”

“If you get elected and you become someone important, don’t become crazy, yah?” said one of the comedians, Eky Priyagung, a reference to the 2019 election, when the opposite happened: Some candidates who lost were so devastated that they had to seek inpatient care for their mental health.

In Massachusetts, there was the inevitable play on the Boston accent: “Changing lanes? Use Yah Blinkah.”

When he was secretary of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation in 2014, the “Use Yah Blinkah” highway message got a lot of positive attention from Boston drivers and the local news media, he said.