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- Whats the origin of “yo”? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In the Neapolitan dialect "guaglione" (pronounced guahl-YO-nay) signified a young man The chiefly unlettered immigrants shortened that to guahl-YO, which they pronounced whal-YO That was inevitably further shortened to yo The common greeting among young Italian-American males was "Hey, whal-YO!", and then simply, "Yo!" And so it remains today
- Can Yo be used to end a conversation? - English Language Usage . . .
Yo, just do your job! YO!, here Yo is being used at the end of the sentence as a declarative or imperative exclamation, but my question is can "Yo" also be used alone to end a conversation
- british english - Is it formal or informal to use y o as an . . .
This is my first question on this site I am not a native speaker My question is, is it formal or informal to use y o as an abbreviation of "years old" in British English?
- meaning - Does ‘Yo’ in ‘yo mama joke’ actually refer to “Your” mother . . .
11 "Yo mama" does mean "your mother " The "yo mama" jokes are more or less humorous insults, used as a sort of verbal sparring on the street
- Whats the origin of saying yoo hoo! to get someones attention?
The Oxford English Dictionary dates yoo-hoo to 1924, as noted by the American Dialect Society, and compares it to yo-ho, originally a nautical phrase also sometimes used in yo-heave-ho Their first documented use of yo-ho is from 1769 in William Falconer's An universal dictionary of the marine: Hola-ho, a cry which answers to yoe-hoe Yo-ho derives from two interjections Yo: an exclamation of
- american english - Whats the semantic content of the word yo in the . . .
Yo (interjection) : A greeting or said to get someone's attention; hey: Yo, dudes and babes! - [1859+; even though yo and yoho are very old utterances, found by 1420, the recent revival of yo as a primarily black interjection has spawned comment; Ernest Paolino of Philadelphia, indignant because a New York writer had claimed the syllable for
- What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”?
Our numbers have a specific two-letter combination that tells us how the number sounds For example 9th 3rd 301st What do we call these special sounds?
- Where does this proverb come from? “If you want to go fast, go alone . . .
I am attempting to find the origin or source of this proverb: “If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together” Most sources say that this is a translation of an African prov
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