The word 'yap' is correct and usable in written English.
It is mainly used as a verb, meaning to talk incessantly or noisily, often with less coherence or meaning than desired. Example: She couldn't get a word in edgeways while her friend yapped on for what felt like hours.
Mr Washington graduated from college and now works as a publisher in a suburb of the city that has a Lexus dealership and where the dogs yap rather than snarl.Stories such as his are far too rare.
These clashing suspicions have conjured up a pack of watchdogs that yap at Mr Prewitt's census-takers, keeping them from doing their ordinary work.In this section The travails of a census man Clinton's stock falls Out of jail and on to the street The boomers' queasy future Save Social Security?
If you want to yap, rap, bark, howl or burp, so be it, and the modish English of the 1990s offers you plenty of exemplars (things to copy, if you prefer, but you will note that three words are longer than one).
Yap Ah Loy arrived in the Malay state of Selangor in 1856 at the age of 19.
The German authorities made Yap a centre for underwater cable communication.
The purported empire consisted mainly of a chain of trading and ceremonial relationships with one of the states of Yap.
When civil war broke out in Selangor in 1870, Yap Ah Loy was faced with internecine fighting among dissident Chinese groups as well as attacks from Malay factions.
The anti-metaphysical, formal, constructive, and pragmatic character of logical empiricist works resonated with the constructive, reformist, anti-ornamental, functional and international aesthetics of modernism (Galison 1990, Galison 1996, Dhams 2004, and for a less mechanical and foundationalist reading of the modernist connection, Potochnik and Yap 2006).
Although some feminists have defended facets of the work of Neurath (Okrulik 2004) and Carnap (Yap 2010) as useful for feminism, most analytic feminists find resources in philosophers who themselves reject central dogmas and methods of classical analytic philosophy, e.g., Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, Quine, Davidson, and others.
