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Word: ays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frail thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away... --John Milton, Lycidas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Homeward Angel, Once Again | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...ay-SHAN-an-than...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Endpaper: It's All in a Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...ay-SHAN-an-than...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: It's all in the NAME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...right: learning to dictate to the machine was trickier than I had supposed. For instance, I pronounce the article "a" as "uh," but the machine understood it only if I said "ay." Also, Gervais admitted, there was a bug in my version (3.01) of the software that cut off the first utterance of any dictation. That bug has been squashed. Now the device is getting better than 90% accuracy and types "tomato" just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Dictator | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

Bart Simpson is an underachiever--"and proud of it," as a million T shirts read, back when The Simpsons began its run on Fox and he was the first fad of the '90s. Remember "Eat my shorts"? Recall "Cowabunga" and "Ay, caramba"? His fame skyrocketed in no time; burnout was virtually assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cartoon Character BART SIMPSON | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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