Re: YaYa

Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:27:40 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
<d.phillipson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Roy" <luorihui@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently heard a word "YaYa" from a radio program. It was
referenced in several places, one of them was "ya-ya grandmother
sisterhood".

There was an American novel a few years ago (possibly
a film too) with Ya Ya Sisterhood in the title.

Ah yes.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279778/plotsummary
Playwright Siddalee Walker, on the verge of opening a new play,
gives a magazine interview in which she discusses her unhappy
childhood. Her mother is furious and cuts her off. Her mother's
friends, who formed a secret society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, as
children, kidnap Siddalee from her New York apartment and take
her home to Louisiana, where they explain why her mother
mistreated her with help from the secret Ya-Ya scrapbook (and
copious flashbacks).

But omitting the earlier reference to the Rolling Stones' "Get Yer Ya Yas
out"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Yer_Ya-Ya's_Out!_The_Rolling_Stones_in_Concert

Itself a reference to the earlier Blind Boy Fuller's "Get your Yas Yas out".

Wiki reckons that "yas yas" was a euphemism for arse but I always thought it
referred to bazooms.
--
John Dean
Oxford


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