It IS in 95% of my stories to the point of ,”Gosh Shirley…. Start a story with something other than, ’hay…’ Then , last year on final exam day a kid asked me how to say ’there is.’ I was floored. Speechless
That’s b/c the student is going from Eng to Sp, translating, a different ability from telling a story in Sp using ‘hay’.