Sep 2, 2011 · 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 …

Mar 6, 2018 · 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 …

Apr 25, 2017 · 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 …

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 …

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.

Oct 21, 2023 · I'm betting that most people know exactly what I am talking about. It happens when you're scrolling through some social media and you see something that is only a little funny. It may …

Jan 31, 2012 · The Yiddish "oy oy oy", the Spanish "ai ai ai" and the Chinese "ai ai ai" or "ai yo" are all minor variations on this theme (and pronounced distinctly). I've never heard this in straight up …

Oct 13, 2020 · @TRiG — From what I can see looking at various online sources, "dieresis" & "umlaut" can refer to the linguistic phenomena, as well as the diacritic mark used in its particular context. …

Aug 23, 2014 · 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?

Dec 26, 2022 · I am asking if "yuns" is a word, and if it is, how do I use it? Maybe it's just a north east american term, but I'm unsure how it's used in a sentence like: How yuns doing?