The word 'dey' is not correct or recognized in written English.
However, it is the correct spelling for the contracted form of the pronoun "they," which is a perfectly valid and usable pronoun in written English. An example sentence: They said dey would be here soon.
A group of women in brightly coloured hijabs sang in the local dialect: "When Buhari dey for power, Nigeria go better".
It is a message Mr Jonathan could well heed too.Correction: We originally translated the pidgin English "dey" as "die".
He waved the car down".How you dey?" he asked, propping his elbow on the window frame.
"If you dey [are] together for one place and you get food to eat, you must share it together," explains Okotie Daniel, a student, to an oral examiner; though 29, he is unable to complete the written test.
"I dey fine," Baobab replied.
The head of the Algerian regency, elected by fellow Janissary officers (from 1689), was titled dey, and, though his family life was restricted to prevent succession claims and he was confined to Algiers, he had virtually absolute power; 30 such deys ruled Algiers in succession between 1671 and 1830.
In late 16th-century Tunis, a dey commanded the army and eventually was in sole control of the state, but by 1705 the title had disappeared from official lists.
Although it was frequently taken and then lost by the Turks, it became the seat of a bey who was subordinate to the dey of Algiers.
Other sites include the modern building of the National Library, the old palace of the archbishop (formerly the palace of the dey), and the Winter Palace (formerly the palace of the French governor-general).
In 1826 Constantine asserted its independence of the dey of Algiers.
I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.
