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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
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
may you or can you? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Please include the research you've done, or consider if your question suits our English Language Learners site better Questions that can be answered using commonly-available references are off-topic
Difference between How are you? and How are you doing? In my experience as a native speaker in the Middle Atlantic region, there is a slight difference "How are you?" is a bland greeting for someone you haven't seen for a while, while "How are you doing?" spoken in full (as opposed to being shortened to "Howyadoin?") may be an actual inquiry The latter is more common when there is some expectation that the subject might not be doing well For
Do you really answer How do you do? with How do you do? You could also say it this way: "how do you do" back has been replaced with an equally meaningless reply It is just an exterior change of convention; etiquette demands that you give only one answer when asked about your well-being in somewhat formal situations: you are doing well, thank you At "not so great", your interlocutor would be forced to ask "oh dear, why not?", and you'd be forced
What about you? versus How about you? - English Language Usage . . . From my point of view, if the difference between what about and how about in general is slight, the difference between what about you and how about you is even slighter They are certainly interchangeable, as you mentioned, but I would go so far as to say that their common usages are semantically indistinguishable In point of usage, Ngrams shows a slight preference for What about you: COCA
When do I use a question mark with Could you [please] Actually, sentences that begin with 'could', 'should', or 'would' are questions and should have a trailing question mark Your original quote, "Could you please pass me the pepper shaker?", could be answered with a "yes" or "no " Although we usually use this syntax as a command it is not the same as the command "Pass me the pepper shaker," or "Please pass me the pepper shaker " Etiquette tells
What is the origin history of you do you (or do you)? The full phrase this originated from is " do you and I'll do me " Another variation is " do you - cuz I'mma do me " The oldest reference to the phrase that I could find is from the song Do You by Funkmaster Flex (featuring DMX), from the album Volume IV, released on December 5, 2000 This could be a variation of the phrase " do your thing ", which has been in use for at least a century