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Us Chicagoans optimize that to "Yo!"



I thought it was 'jo' or 'joe'. I run into a lot of Chicagoans and they pepper their speech with 'joe'. I was always like 'joe' who? Found out recently it is a stand-in for dude.


More confusingly it's a pretty harsh insult for a female in Philly




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