sye

1. (UK, dialectal or eye-dialectal, dated) To say.Examples: "hinkin' of whort yer'd liked ter sye, but whort yer 'aven't said,"; "Thank yer kindly for mi comfortable tea. That's what you was about to sye, eh'! No, 'tain't."; "[…] is nicely depicted in the following literary picture of Sir Douglas Haig by a London Tommy: “Aig, 'e don't sye much, 'e don't; 'e don't, so to sye, sye nothink, sye nothink; but what 'e don't sye don't mean nothink, not 'arf; and when 'e do sye anythink—my Gawd!""UKdated