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ay (also aye) interjection Yes; oh. 

1925 Dargan Highland Annals 23 “Ay,” he said. 1973 GSMNP-91:31 Oh, aye, that’s what caused this thumb stiff here. (Jim Shelton). 1974-75 McCracken Logging 23:8 Aye they used it twelve years, fifteen years. 1975 GSMNP-62:5 Aye, that was the first reader, you know, we had, and then I just got to the third reader in reading.

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