yah vs yessum

yah

noun
  • An upper-class person, especially a Sloane Ranger. 

intj
  • An expression uttered to encourage a horse to run faster. 

adv
  • Yes. 

yessum

abbrev
  • yes ma’am (also used, somewhat less commonly, when speaking to a man) 

How often have the words yah and yessum occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )