Just say NO

It's no. Just, NO. It sounds like GO, SO, KNOW, GROW. It is one syllable.

It is not NO-Y, with the lips remaining pursed from the O while you pronounce a redundant Y as though you are going to add the word YES and yet are in an agony of indecision about your answer. If you are not going to say YES, say NO, not a pretentious fucking hybrid of the two.

Saying NO-Y instead of NO does not make you sound posh. It makes you sound mentally defective and people may wonder if you were pre-lingually deaf. If you are neither brain damaged nor pre-lingually deaf but merely fucking ignorant about the pronunciation of your own language, stop saying NO-Y. People will think you are mocking the afflicted and they will hold you down and kick you repeatedly in the face for being disrespectful. This is called Diversity Training.

Foreigners do not say NO-Y. It is a verbal tic adopted by a certain sub-class within the underclass (the mind boggles, I grant you) and some 'celebrities' with shit for brains who have whatever one would call the the opposite of aspirations and therefore cultivate the underclass in order to make them fork over the cost of next week's Heat Magazine Special on their latest unplanned pregnancy by a father whose identity they coyly refuse to reveal, probably because they cannot remember it.

Neither is NO pronounced NO-WUH.

NO-WUH makes you sound like a retarded teenager from a dysfunctional family, possibly a cousin of Karen Matthews, who has been left with a permanent pout after being excluded from a sink school in Camden on a regular basis.

It's a girl, thing, apparently. Boys don't do it. They say just NO. It's a pity that more girls don't.

Stupid bastards.