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English language young adult fiction and children's literature in general have historically shown a lack of books with a main character who is a person of color, LGBT, or disabled. [115] In the UK 90% of the best-selling YA titles from 2006 to 2016 featured white, able-bodied, cis-gendered, and heterosexual main characters. [116]
Ya (river), a river in Tynset municipality in Innlandet county, Norway; Yet another (YA), a common initial part of acronyms; YoungArts (YA), a scholarship program for American high school students; A US Navy hull classification symbol: Ash barge (YA)
Yahya (Arabic: يحيى, romanized: Yaḥyā), also spelled Yehya, is an Arabic male given name. [a] It is an Arabic form of the Aramaic given name Aramaic Yohanan (Hebrew: יְהוֹחָנָן, romanized: Yəhoḥānān, lit.
Y'all is a contraction of you all.The spelling you-all in second-person plural pronoun usage was first recorded in 1824. [4] [5] The earliest two attestations with the actual spelling y'all are from 1856, [6] and in the Southern Literary Messenger (published in Richmond, Virginia) in 1858. [7]
"Kum ba yah" ("Come by here") is an African American spiritual of disputed origin, known to have been sung in the Gullah culture of the islands off South Carolina and Georgia, with ties to enslaved Central Africans.
Ya-ya may refer to: "Ya Ya" (Beyoncé song), a 2024 song by Beyoncé from her album Cowboy Carter "Ya Ya" (Lee Dorsey song), a 1961 song by Lee Dorsey, covered by Dalida, Petula Clark and others; A trombone technique of Tricky Sam Nanton; Ya! Ya!, a 1964 album by saxophonist Budd Johnson; Ya-Ya, a series of novels by Rebecca Wells
Yas (/ j ɑː s /), sometimes spelled yass, is a playful or non-serious slang term equivalent to the excited or celebratory use of the interjection Yas was added to Oxford Dictionaries in 2017 and defined as a form of exclamation "expressing great pleasure or excitement". [1]
Yodh (also spelled jodh, yod, or jod) is the tenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic yāʾ ي , Aramaic yod 𐡉, Hebrew yud י , Phoenician yōd 𐤉, and Syriac yōḏ.