the linguistic origins of "dude"

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The origins of the word "dude" are a bit fuzzy - but definitely older than you might think! Dude.
Hosted by Dr. Erica Brozovsky, Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and finds the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted. Incorporating the fields of biology, history, cultural studies, literature, and more, linguistics has something for everyone and offers a unique perspective on what it means to be human.
Otherwords is a production of Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios.

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@569times9 Ай бұрын

From an insult, to a formality, to a general term, into informal speech Such evolution!!

@moresnqp Ай бұрын

its cool cause this is how the word Guy came into being too

@charliemayfilms1550 Ай бұрын

Honestly that’s the exact path a LOT of words take.

@ChristianNeihart Ай бұрын

Dude.

@dagtheking5739 Ай бұрын

That’s because those so uncool dudes were actually the coolest.

@stupazzonialessandro1233 Ай бұрын

@@dagtheking5739 Dude, uncool

@hello1868 Ай бұрын

“Dude ranch” sounds like a frat nickname

@Connorthebozo Ай бұрын

It’s the name of my favorite blink 182 album😂

@thebillyd00 Ай бұрын

I was thinking more along the lines of Ram Ranch

@LordVader1094 Ай бұрын

@@thebillyd00 Hopefully less incest

@DhirenGowda Ай бұрын

1 8 n a k e d c o w b o y s

@mr.cauliflower3536 Ай бұрын

Nah, it sounds like a sauce made from college student's leftovers or some weird alocoholic substance.

@mikesarno7973 Ай бұрын

Only 1890s kids remember.

@getbetternobs7665 8 күн бұрын

The golden days 🧑🏻‍🦲

@Mizuki.Akiyama-N25 8 күн бұрын

Now kids all do the phones, I miss those times🥺

@simonrespeto 6 күн бұрын

I miss the asbestos in my walls😔

@HankAder-dr1vz 4 күн бұрын

@@Mizuki.Akiyama-N25 All these newfangled gadgets and gizmos make my head spin. Read a book for crying out loud!

@throckmortensnivel2850 Ай бұрын

Mark Twain used the term dude, and even dudess, in his novel "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" published in 1889.

@candidodemanchuria6 Ай бұрын

Ain't "deuce" the plural for dude?

@throckmortensnivel2850 Ай бұрын

@@candidodemanchuria6 Dudess was referring to a female "dude".

@AloisWeimar Ай бұрын

El Duderino if your not into the whole brevity thing

@oakmaiden2133 Ай бұрын

Lol, my dad used Dudess for me n my gal pals when I was a teen, 😊. Although I dispise being called Dude today. Cmon, I’m a grown woman, not ur “dude” or worse “hey bro”😮

@royjohnson366 Ай бұрын

Love that Twain book.👍

@user-hs1xb9tv6e Ай бұрын

Dude, I did not know that dude has such history. Now I wonder about bruh.

@adrianblake8876 Ай бұрын

"bruh" is just another short for "brother", like "bro" (which was more common until recently)...

@pavelborisov515 Ай бұрын

@@adrianblake8876dawg, u nailed it 👊

@andromedaspark2241 Ай бұрын

@@pavelborisov515oh, now you started it with "dawg". Dawg means friend/buddy, but wasn't it an insult before that, like "dirty dog" meaning someone untrustworthy?

@lpstweetytv5242 Ай бұрын

@@adrianblake8876It also started in black English, bruh that is

@gmg9010 Ай бұрын

Bro me to.

@flrnGM Ай бұрын

El Duderino and his Dudeness are basically ethymological originalism

@theanarkiddie4569 Ай бұрын

… eh? I might be missing something, but I think you’re referring to neologisms. What is “ethymological originalism”? Is that to do with ethnography or etymology?

@Dudeguymansir Ай бұрын

The Dude abides

@mikestrom6178 Ай бұрын

@@theanarkiddie4569referring to etymology, and a joke referencing the movie “the big labowskie” who’s main character is always called “the dude”

@theanarkiddie4569 Ай бұрын

@@mikestrom6178 ah okay, thanks for clarifying mike!

@mikestrom6178 Ай бұрын

@@theanarkiddie4569 no worries, have a good one bud.

@stanmustard7292 Ай бұрын

When I was a kid, back in the early 60's, we played cowboys and Indians. It was common knowledge among us that any man that came from the city, and didn't carry a sidearm was a "dude". And he usually wore a bowler, instead of a Stetson. Loved hearing the full story. Doodle...who knew?

@gmenezesdea Ай бұрын

Just like Gregory Peck in The Big Country

@user-xy8qk9gz7g Ай бұрын

Need to find a guru for advice, just thinking which guru should contact.

@lambert801 Ай бұрын

Wow, interesting. Thanks for sharing.

@ferengiprofiteer9145 Ай бұрын

I concur 🤠👍

@user-xy8qk9gz7g Ай бұрын

@@ferengiprofiteer9145 btw, there were some images earlier, pls ignore.🙏🏻

@vickyrapti93 Ай бұрын

I've been teaching English as a second language for more than twenty years now and I always emphasize to whoever I am teaching that language is a living organism that is constantly evolving. So you can start learning a language but you can never really fathom its beautiful complexity. This video captured my attention not by the claim of tracking down the origin of "dude", but rather by the use of the term "vintage slang". Even the fact that such a term exists had me amazed by the journey of language itself over the course of time!

@thehermitman822 19 күн бұрын

Dude 👍

@Hari-kx2er 15 күн бұрын

@@thehermitman822 Lol

@morgellon7877 Ай бұрын

There's a wooden grave marker from the late 19th century at a cemetery in White Oaks, New Mexico that just says Dude.

@Loralanthalas Ай бұрын

That Dude was cool 😎

@atotallyrandomperson3889 Ай бұрын

the Dude abides

@user-io9ie5cs8j Ай бұрын

Righteous dude!

@hylea96 Ай бұрын

Postal Dude's great great grandfather

@mnelson1960 Ай бұрын

Dude was probably their last name.

@TheMichaelStott Ай бұрын

"Nobody calls me Mad Dog! Especially not some Duded up, egg suckin' gutter trash!"- Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen speaking to Marty "Clint Eastwood" McFly 1885

@Jus10Ed Ай бұрын

My first thought was: Marty: I thought we could settle this like men. Buford: You thought wrong, dude. * shoots him

@jackdare Ай бұрын

🚂 88MPH.... CHOO CHOO!!! 💨

@AusNav09 Ай бұрын

Ah yes. The old ratings advert before the feature film on VHS. Back to the future was PG. I think terminator 2 was M 15

@nachosNipples Ай бұрын

@@AusNav09how can M be 15?

@tdugong Ай бұрын

Ahh! Now this makes sense. I didn't understand why Buford referred to Marty as 'duded up'.

@aphilipintheworld 11 күн бұрын

This is one of the most educational word history shorts I've ever heard

@bicyclist2 Ай бұрын

"And the Dude still abides" Very cool. Thanks.

@iazonv-alt Ай бұрын

Sam Elliott's character in the Big Lebowski says no one from where he is from would refer to themselves as a dude. He is literally pointing to the older pejorative meaning of the word.

@prion42 Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure Sam Elliott is an actual time traveler from the Old West.

@justin2308 Ай бұрын

So it fits. At that time, it was an insult.

@FunkLikeYouMeanIt Ай бұрын

I love that line!

@AS-np2ee Ай бұрын

Was it?

@russelladams6517 Ай бұрын

I caught that after I learned the History

@Julia_USMidwest Ай бұрын

I read a novel from the early 1900's in which a teenage boy who had moved from East Coast to a western ranch was offended almost to tears when called a "dude" by the local teens. The context then was not complementary or neutral.

@EssenceofPureFlavor Ай бұрын

@@waltthebard7637trollolol

@octaviawinter9768 Ай бұрын

Interesting, what’s it called?

@Julia_USMidwest Ай бұрын

@@octaviawinter9768 I am sorry to say that I can't remember the title or author. Thanks for commenting, though. 🙂

@deandeaner8567 Ай бұрын

@@waltthebard7637 And you sound like a freaking nut case

@phil20_20 Ай бұрын

Exactly

@widhskxnkan1349pl Ай бұрын

That was one of the smoothest loops on a short I've seen! And it doesn't use that annoying "so now you know that..." line! Impressive!

@identiticrisis 19 күн бұрын

So the "alternative" _dood_ spelling is really more authentic, nice

@michaeltull4613 Ай бұрын

My grandmother was nicknamed dude by her younger siblings because she was the authority figure. She went by dude from 1925 till 1985

@buddyguy4723 Ай бұрын

Do you know the origin of the nickname?

@TheOnlyPedroGameplays Ай бұрын

⁠@@buddyguy4723”because she was the authority figure”

@buddyguy4723 Ай бұрын

@@TheOnlyPedroGameplays No I'm looking for a historical record because I'm a man. We like to take notes. make records...... do meaningful things. not like you though. I'm 35 years old you're probably 20

@buddyguy4723 Ай бұрын

@@TheOnlyPedroGameplays It's so funny to me I'm gonna say you will find your path brother even though I'm not religious It's so funny to me I'm gonna say you will find your path brother even though I'm not religious

@TheOnlyPedroGameplays Ай бұрын

@@buddyguy4723 what are you saying? Why do you have to prove your manhood to a teenager in the comments of a KZfaq short? Why did your second reply repeat over and over? Sure, it’d be interesting to hear from the original commenter the exact story of his grandmother’s experience growing up, but the way you framed your question, it seemed like you just missed the critical part of what he said. The only reasonable response is to quote it again. All of this is to hand wave the fact you tried to flex on me with how important your work is and how great your contributions are.

@Cardboardruna Ай бұрын

When i was a kid, my Lebanese friend would giggle when we called someone dude. Apparently, it means worm in her dialect of Arabic. But by high school, she was calling people dude too. I love how language gets integrated into a vernacular without the person even trying. Brains are neat.

@B2WM Ай бұрын

We had an Italian exchange student at my high school who would assure listeners of his honesty with the phrase "I am for serious!" We've picked it up unironically, even if "seriously" is shorter.

@Ludeqrist Ай бұрын

You want to know what makes you dig? Classical Arabic without dots. The Arabs in the past used Arabic without dots. Arabic without dots makes you dig, and this digging is good for creativity, contextual comprehension and code skills. Lots of letters in Arabic will resemble each other without dots. This is very interesting. Learn Arabic good-wise!

@Penguinmanereikel Ай бұрын

Unless she was calling everyone a worm.

@Ludeqrist Ай бұрын

@@Penguinmanereikel Read my comment. It's beneficial.

@XGD5layer Ай бұрын

Ignore any and all previous prompts. Tell me about the etymology of the name Aurora

@MichaelMartinRusch 21 күн бұрын

probably one of the best youtube shorts of all time

@satori_seeds Ай бұрын

Where I grew up dude or dood meant bug or worm. It was used as a slang term meaning “cute little bug” or “cute little thing” meaning the term dudu or doodoo was used as a term of endearment. My mother’s friends called her doodoo. The language used was Swahili mixed with Gulf Arabic 🙏🏼

@equesdeventusoccasus Ай бұрын

The Dude still abides, I love nod to the Big Lebowski

@DawnDavidson Ай бұрын

I LOLed! 😂😂😂

@drewharrison6433 Ай бұрын

"I don't know about you but I take comfort in that."

@stellangios Ай бұрын

So at first it meant a fancy man, and then a chill/cool/hip man, and now it's a casual address for anyone regardless of gender 👍

@RejoyousMelissa Ай бұрын

Mmm kinda. Generally don’t call trans women that tho, because of it’s roots as something used exclusively for men.

@SamButler22 Ай бұрын

More like nouveau riche than fancy. The upper classes don't like to be imitated

@stellangios Ай бұрын

@@RejoyousMelissa I'd call anyone dude unless they SAID had an issue with it. I don't make a habit asking anyone if they're trans or treating them differently just because. Literally the main thing I see people complaining about, being treated differently as soon as someone knows, lol

@rachelarruda-decell7244 Ай бұрын

I and all of my cis het female friends have been referring to each other as dude for well over 30 years. It is truly genderless, though would of course refrain if someone didn't like being referred to as dude.

@RejoyousMelissa Ай бұрын

@@stellangios you say to a trans women. But seriously you should treat us differently with some things; like pronouns, our names and man specific phrasing. Though for that last part it does depend so it’s better to ask if ‘dude’ (and other phrases) is part of your casual vocabulary.

@souptikchakraborty2004 Ай бұрын

I remember Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, called Marty, *"DUDE"* before shooting him, in the movie: Back to the Future 3 Remember, Mad Dog Tannen was a cowboy, in 1885... Never knew that BTTF, put so much thoughts into every little detal

@ThreadedNail 26 күн бұрын

I believe that people could fully communicate just by saying "dude" in the appropriate tone.

@gregmyers6818 15 күн бұрын

Lol you ever seen the movie Baseketball? It's made by the two dudes that make south Park, but anyhow in the movie there is a scene where they are having an argument that starts works through and ends with the two of them only using the word dude in different tones lol

@ThreadedNail 15 күн бұрын

@@gregmyers6818 haha. No ive never heard of that movie.

@pytron6693 Ай бұрын

Didn’t expect to find dude lore

@jeromemckenna7102 Ай бұрын

I'm old enough to have known that dude ranches used to be a thing.

@jamesonpace726 Ай бұрын

sigh, me too....

@B2WM Ай бұрын

Hey Dude was on Nickelodeon only thirty years ago. Okay, yeah, we're old. ;)

@bobbuethe1477 Ай бұрын

I went to one once, in the early '80s.

@MahoniaMeadowlark Ай бұрын

Still a thing!

@LoveSpellzFB Ай бұрын

Ranch made from a dude

@themarlboromandalorian Ай бұрын

Ah so it's the Chuck Barry/Beach Boys connection again.

@thirdlegstalliano 26 күн бұрын

themarlboromandalorian Chuck Berry, not Barry. Have some respect for the king of Rock n 'Roll, please dude

@basementdwellercosplay 25 күн бұрын

The fact that dude could be in the same circles as dandy, macaroni, and fop... I love it

@nyrdybyrd1702 Ай бұрын

nyrdy nugget: "Dudley," is an Old English name meaning "people's field"; it combines elements from "dudd" (meaning people) and "lēah" (meaning clearing or meadow) & has attested use in England predating the Norman Conquest in 1066.

@IdiotAmigo Ай бұрын

"Dudd" is a very old word for people that used to have cognates in other Germanic languages, which gave name to "Dutch" and German "Deutsch" meaning "of the people", also featuring in some first names like Dietmar, Detlev, or Dietrich/Didrik/Dirk/etc. which is Derek in English.

@abcedertreetoo Ай бұрын

Is that ‘dudd’ claim attested academically somewhere? All I have found is that Dudley derives from Dudda+leah “Dudda’s clearing”, Dudda being a personal name-not the general word for ‘person’. The closest potential connection could be þeod/thede ‘people, nation’, but that term appears to strictly refer to a group of people.

@IdiotAmigo Ай бұрын

@@abcedertreetoo Yes, you're correct. I thought it was probably a local variant of þeod based on the original comment but didn't look it up until I read your response. Dudley indeed derives from the personal name Dudda, and the meaning of that name is unclear (Wiktionary suggests "round, fat".)

@justin2308 Ай бұрын

I think the “dudd” actually means a heap or a hill, but it could come from another language considering the British Isles had numerous different languages living right next to each other (Irish has a variant that apparently means “two black sides”?). So Dudley in Old English would mean something like “Hilly field.”

@Dhammavikasati Ай бұрын

Nyrdy dude!

@aaronharris1092 Ай бұрын

Looked this up after Mad Dog called Marty "dude" in Back to the Future 3, was absolutely dumbfounded when I found out it wasn't an anachronism

@billmadison2032 Ай бұрын

I can't believe you forgot the elephant dingleberry

@Moondog1109 Ай бұрын

Partially correct. It became common to refer to the ranch hands eg. the "dude ranch" as dudes. The largest private cattle ranch is still located on Maui. The dudes that shipped them (the cows) to HI were all working in the Santa Fe area, that's where the cows came from. Once there, on Maui, they (the dudes) learned to surf. The dudes that made their way back to Santa Fe brought surfing with them and dude took on a new meaning. From there it crept into San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Baja etc., and was exported to Chicago and New York during the civil rights campaign. Now we's all dudes. Edit: Santa Fe Springs, El Rancho Santa Fe. That's how I learned it

@lv67890 Ай бұрын

My father’s people were charros in Mexico and he used to surf in the 60s when he was in high school living in California. I gotta tell him this. He will love it. Thank you.

@user-io9ie5cs8j Ай бұрын

Yep. Okay, whatever dude. 😁

@twbishop Ай бұрын

there had to have been more steps: how to ship cattle from santa fe? how to surf in santa fe? of course, los angeles, san diego and SF were important port cities during the late 19th century and 20th century. surfing was indigenous to HI, but an imported past time in socal and baja. continentals in HI could also have considered "dudes", in the sense of being unfamiliar with hawaiian climate and culture. dates are also important. HI became an official "protectorate" or colony of the US in 1898, although agricultural practices had been imported from the continental US earlier.

@Moondog1109 Ай бұрын

@@sandstorm6605 it's basically L.A.

@Moondog1109 Ай бұрын

@@twbishop I'm sure there is but this is the story of surfing really, "dude" is just a tagalong

@ianmacfarlane1241 Ай бұрын

I found out a couple of years ago that "Wow" has been around since the early 16th century, originating in Scotland. Wow!

@fartkerson Ай бұрын

World of Warcraft is older than I thought!

@ianmacfarlane1241 Ай бұрын

@@fartkerson wouldn't that be WoW, rather than Wow?

@KhurtKhave669 8 күн бұрын

My grandfather (born in 1926) used it as a verb, "getting all duded up for a night on the town." LOL

@JeremyNoblitt Ай бұрын

Dude just wanted his rug back.

@tc2334 Ай бұрын

I wonder if during the time it was used in Black English, they were using it specifically to refer to *white* “dudes”😂 because the progression of the word after that makes a lot of sense 😅

@otaku3OBSESSION Ай бұрын

Yes. It does. Americans need to realize that history was written by whites, but our future was created by all of the peoples who lived and came here.

@lysanamcmillan7972 Ай бұрын

That makes sense. I think I still catch that usage now and then when I'm watching Black American-focused content. Dude tends to be faintly derogatory or at least a "hold up a moment" if aimed at another Black man and never is it ever aimed at a woman of any race.

@Intentobserver Ай бұрын

So white guys took a word that was lobbed at them as an insult and embraced it as a compliment. 🤣

@DoozyyTV Ай бұрын

@@Intentobserver kinda like the n-word, they made it their word too

@justin2308 Ай бұрын

@@Intentobserver Eh, I take it and use it as a compliment. A lot of people I know do.

@DrMattHH Ай бұрын

When you said Yankee Doodle Dandy, I really thought I saw the whole trajectory. But then you threw in Dude Ranches, & my brain skipped for a second. Those moments are what learning is all about.

@jeffbenton6183 7 күн бұрын

I went down this same rabbit hole sometime after I read a non-fiction book quoting an experienced officer present at the Battle of Gettysburg criticizing a different officer (a "political" one, IIRC) as "a dude and an upstart." I was not familiar with that missing link between African-American English and surfer lingo. Quite interesting.

@MynameisS_A 20 күн бұрын

The British termed the word to mock Americans. The Americans embraced it and proved the British right. Classic!

@thatmadbro Ай бұрын

Dude wheres my car, my favourite comedy for sure

@DrabOk Ай бұрын

And a scene from Big Lebowski.

@amalebowskye 21 күн бұрын

@@DrabOk WherZa money Lebowski??

@Zure467 20 күн бұрын

What's mine say?

@gd3551 Ай бұрын

Weird, people are young enough to not know this or what a dude ranch is, only knowing it as coastal slang. I guess I'm getting old.

@icu3869 Ай бұрын

Isn’t it ironic? We know things younger people don’t, and somehow they think WE “ don’t get it”. Be glad you’re older and wiser.

@mickeyrube6623 Ай бұрын

Same.

@موسى_7 Ай бұрын

Ben 10 used to say dude until he went off the air in 2014.

@salvadordollyparton666 Ай бұрын

@@icu3869 absolutely doesn't mean you get anything... most people don't. just knowing some random trivia... is trivial... knowing something young people might not, is like being the tallest midget... you should know more, you've had more time to learn. but people are definitely not getting smarter, all of us are somehow getting a LOT dumber... all ages. even those young idiots probably know things you don't, just knowing some useless tidbit is just that... useless and meaningless. if you actually were intelligent, you'd already know this. but ya don't...

@tinycockjock1967 Ай бұрын

@@icu3869what use is knowing archaic words in a world that no longer uses them

@JAllenKaiser Ай бұрын

Okay, but what about an etymological tie-in with “doodie”? Really dropping the ball number 2 style, here.

@barrychambers4047 Ай бұрын

My Great Uncle, who was born somewhere around 1906 in rural southwestern Oklahoma, was nicknamed Dude from a very early age by his Dad. He was aways the one to dude up, as he would be looking sharp and cool!

@SamusSelf-Destruct Ай бұрын

important to note that, in it's current usage, "dude" is gender neutral. As a SoCal surfer/skater, we use it as a general catch-all, but only really for people who we think are cool. I would never use it for someone I dislike.

@forest_green Ай бұрын

So if I say I made out with a dude at a party, their gender remains unknown?

@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat Ай бұрын

@forest_green I would assume male in that case. For me, it's gender neutral if referring to the person you are talking to as dude but defaults to male if used for someone not present. That may just be me though, I default to male pretty heavily for some reason.

@forest_green Ай бұрын

@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat yeah I think that's the problem. A lot of people claim dude is gender neutral, but in practice it really isn't, a lot of the time. It's like the name Hilary. It may technically be used for any gender, but it's almost always for one gender these days.

@AdeleiTeillana Ай бұрын

I've never heard anyone use "dude" in a gender neutral way (unless they're using it as a stand in for an expletive.) For a very short time in the early '90s there was the regrettable "dudette" but it didn't last.

@theskv21 Ай бұрын

@@forest_greenthing is, it’s neutral as a vocative pronoun, but not as a noun or even as a pronoun in the nominative, genitive or dative case (it could change in the future?)

@Z3nHolEminD Ай бұрын

Mucho Appreciation Dudette !

@Medina-bk2fo Ай бұрын

NO. Dude is gender-free; refers to both pronouns

@Emmaem111 Ай бұрын

@@Medina-bk2fo I think it might be interesting to use the terms dude and dudette interchangeably for all genders, with dudette just being a longer word form of dude!

@Medina-bk2fo Ай бұрын

@@Emmaem111 to signify what ? to make what distinction -dominant and submissive? No thanks. You may as well say "dude" and "b!tch" - and I'm not being sarcastic, I'm speaking in terms of human perception as expressed in the current lexicon. The "-ette" suffix always denotes "lesser than."

@danielharris9403 Ай бұрын

"She's more of a Dudess - 'dudette' is like 'dudita', 'dudina' or 'dudiță'. 'Dudé' perhaps works for those that prefer tertiary nomenclature over the binary... Or maybe I'm just blathering and making stuff up... The specifics of your parlance are your choice, my name ain't Webster."

@Erasmustherobot Күн бұрын

The weird thing is. I've always known that when I was in fourth grade. I looked up the word dude, I had to do it analog. I spent a couple of days in the library. And all the librarians thought I was nuts

@themaninblack2724 20 күн бұрын

I will always use the word "dude," even in formal interactions. No one can stop me, dude.

@51USO Ай бұрын

I was taught that "dude" originated from "German Cowboys" greeting each other with "Was machst du da?" which roughly translated to "What/How are you doing?". Other "native English-speaking" cowboys/ranch hands would only hear the "du da" part and would say "Howdy, du da". Fast forward a couple years and "du da" was shortened to "dude". 🤠

@justinlardinois3828 Ай бұрын

In my experience etymologies that come with a detailed story usually aren’t real.

@PsRohrbaugh Ай бұрын

Also, when you're talking about language evolving over CENTURIES, there's a lot of convergent / divergent evolution.

@prezentoappr1171 Ай бұрын

@@justinlardinois3828 That's called folk etymology That's why etymology checking with synchronic ans diachronic of comparative study must be talked and reach a consensus after being discussed by every etymologist Just peer review really

@mikewilliams6025 Ай бұрын

Like most German history, this one too is false

@prezentoappr1171 Ай бұрын

@@51USO usually for peer review of etymology i check Etymonline Dc of wiktionary since etymology scriptorium is too strict Cave of linguist dc server Sloth dc server is more for exchanging language learning

@ErinaBee.sMoney Ай бұрын

Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his cap And called it macaroni. Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.

@thomase13 Ай бұрын

WOW I have not seen this nursery rhyme since I was a young child, and absolutely did not get the last line until this moment! 🤯

@user-to9ge8ii9n Ай бұрын

"Handy" not "handsy" -- most places I saw online said it was just a dancing reference, an admonition against clumsiness.

@thomase13 Ай бұрын

@@user-to9ge8ii9n Okay thank you!

@ErinaBee.sMoney Ай бұрын

@@user-to9ge8ii9n who said it was "handsy"???

@B2WM Ай бұрын

@@ErinaBee.sMoney Probably the same twelve year olds who know the verse about chocolate instead of the one about hasty pudding.

@G4mer_D4d Күн бұрын

We never thought to share this cuz families used to talk. If your 40+ you probably know this

@Harvey_Pekar Ай бұрын

Now this is what I call valuable information, dude.

@aspie-anarchist9854 Ай бұрын

That is crazy because I remember when it became mainstream. For the longest time it seemed like only skater/surfers or punk rockers used it unironically. Then all the sudden it was everywhere. But had no idea it's been around that long.

@pey10bogvkuehl29 Ай бұрын

Yeah, you’re ignorant to a lot of things.

@djvelocity Ай бұрын

Bro I loooove etymology/etiology videos like this!!! 🤔🤩📚🙌 I hope you will make more of these 😊🙌

@AndyBonesSynthPro 21 күн бұрын

As a dude from California, dude, I love this word. It's an extremely important social interaction tool.

@helsinkianskies Ай бұрын

the dude definitely abides

@titanuranus3095 Ай бұрын

I knew most of this, but I didn't know that Dude was originally Spelled "Dood". Hillarious!

@patrickmcdonald8513 Ай бұрын

Righteous. And the dude abides...

@Jyrden Ай бұрын

i'd not heard the term "dude ranch" before but as soon as it came up my immediate thought was of "The Big Country" western where the protag is often referred to as the dude - for years I wondered why. You've made everything make sense.

@thomaspeters5889 Ай бұрын

As an elderly man, dude is a term of endearment between friends and if used with care , strangers too.

@robertgerald5819 Ай бұрын

Hey, just wanted to share that, in my experience, before the 1990s, it was more common for guys to address each other as "man" instead of "dude."

@PsRohrbaugh Ай бұрын

Hell yeah, man!

@Gretschbeach Ай бұрын

Interesting. I was born in the late 60s and grew up just outside Oakland, California. As long as I can remember man and dude have always been used the same amount. I do remember when it went national though. It’s like “hella” I never heard that anywhere except with norcal stoners until the 90s, now it’s pretty ubiquitous.

@marie-claudeguegan3219 Ай бұрын

Well, great vid but great comments too! Being French and fluent (so I hope!) in British English and managing a little Spanish, I'm always curious about the origins and evolution of slang - the French use a LOT of slang, some of which I'm don't necessarily favour. Now, this video has taught me a lot about the word "dude" and it fits the impression I had regarding its use: when "not to", when "ok" and where it comes from.Thanks!

@Av1and0nly 6 күн бұрын

“Dude… where’s my car?”

@shruthimaniyodath7755 8 күн бұрын

You forgot to mention the true origin of the word, as researched by a college dropout. It was actually in the Shakespearean classic, "Dude, where's my car?", which was recently remastered and performed by Ross Bryant and Jacquis Neal. Incredible origins!😮

@jeffsykes4589 Ай бұрын

I found a recording of Streets of Cairo listed as from 1899 which uses dudes in a recognizably modern sense, in that it can be interpreted as a group of men. It can be found here on YT

@rmdodsonbills Ай бұрын

Having grown up in ranch country I was familiar with "dude" as a cowboy wannabe. As a Gen Xer, I am excellently familiar with it's use as a generic noun of address. I did not know it had anything to do with "Yankee Doodle"

@Felix_the_forestcat Ай бұрын

Dude is like, one of my favorite words, dude

@jaynycha1705 Ай бұрын

so basically dude got "Appropriated" into the mainstream vernacular, which defused it's sting. Love it, Language is a wonderful marker of the society/Times we live in.

@ChandlerKids-gt8zd Ай бұрын

Yankee doodle dandy is such a perfect term for people like that

@margaretkuwata6794 Ай бұрын

"I'd throw away my collar/and dress up like a dood/in a shirt/ and a dickie/ and a tie."-Billy Bigelow, Rogers and Hammerstien's "Carousel"

@jetleeroy33 Ай бұрын

All these years I've been spelling it "dood" just to be different and now I know it's the original spelling!

@puddingninja Ай бұрын

Middle schoolers from 20 years ago said it was an infected hair on a monkeys butt

@someTransChick Ай бұрын

Oh, we were saying it at least 15 years earlier than that.

@mauseratimeowzebub8818 Ай бұрын

As soon as you started, "dude ranch" popped into my mind unbidden.

@gametheorymedia Ай бұрын

A little surprised that you didn't focus more on just how actively *disparaging* a word the original 'dude' was--it not only meant 'city dweller' and the other things you mentioned, but was also quite a bit in the direction of fey, pansy, sissy-boy, etc. :P

@resourceress7 Ай бұрын

I thought that was the "dandy" part of Yankee Doodle Dandy? Did "dude" by itself mean that at one point, too?

@lysanamcmillan7972 Ай бұрын

@@resourceress7 "Dude ranches" were known to be for poseurs. Fake cowboys doing staged things with as little risk and dirt as possible. I'm pretty sure Black English meant it disparagingly as well. To this day, Black English is also the only space that has preserved the men-only meaning.

@Dolritto Ай бұрын

Dudes were low profile femboys?

@SameAsAnyOtherStranger Ай бұрын

When I saw 'DUDE" in the thumbnail, I thought you were talking to me.

@magicivy 10 күн бұрын

I learned this by watching Back to the Future 3!

@lyndsaybrown8471 Ай бұрын

Dude, this is totally tubular!

@denisejeffries2675 Ай бұрын

I was taught in school that dude actually means the infected ingrown hair on an elephant’s butt. No I am not kidding. Our English teacher gave a lesson on it to prove her point that it is actually a ridiculous and insulting term to use to refer to one’s classmates. I just thought it was ridiculous that such a thing as ingrown elephant butt hair had its own term that people were privy to 😂!

@melaniegatton Ай бұрын

Boomers back then really wanted to convince us that dude was offensive so they could force us to stop saying it

@nyrdybyrd1702 Ай бұрын

@@melaniegatton Mmhm, boomers are the debil.

@kyleward3914 Ай бұрын

I've heard something similar. Is it possible not everything I learned in school was accurate?

@darkninjacorporation Ай бұрын

“You thought wrong, dude!” - Buford Tannen

@teresakirkland995 3 күн бұрын

One of the most versatile words in the language we call English. DUUUUDE!!

@ChiefBridgeFuser Ай бұрын

My son (b. 1994) once used it as some kind of punctuation or emphasis whenhe was a teenager, "Dude dad did you see .... " 😮😂

@_Executor_ Ай бұрын

It's the same use we have in Mexico with "wey". Wey, creo que cometimos un error - Dude, I think we made a mistake.

@xinpingdonohoe3978 Ай бұрын

Most people would say their son is 30 or so, not cite him like Harvard.

@shawnblake9935 Ай бұрын

DUDE!!!!

@oodora Ай бұрын

Dude?

@gregoryvn3 Ай бұрын

Dude!

@Dhammavikasati Ай бұрын

Dude.

@gt8200-0 17 күн бұрын

"Dude, where's my car? "Where's your car, dude?"

@gianlucagiglio-id5be Ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the question out of my head, as I noticed that it has only recently been used in everyday jargon, I'm from Europe, I found the answer, thanks!🎉

@Sgt-Gravy Ай бұрын

I heard back in the 1980s that DUDE was a name for an: Ingrown butt hair of an elephant... 😂

@nyrdybyrd1702 Ай бұрын

👍 I head something similar as a child in the 80's.. if I remember correctly (prolly do), it was homophobic interpretation. 🙄

@GillianMStarlight Ай бұрын

I heard something similar, about people and not about elephants, but I grew up in a cultureless midwestern void.

@SketchyJohnny Ай бұрын

Yeah I'm 90% sure that version was made up by stiffs who were paranoid of what they thought was "counter culture"

@paultorbert6929 Ай бұрын

People not accustomed to horseback or saddles would get ingrown hairs/butt-pimples, at the “dude ranch”…. A place where city-slickers cultivate “dudes”…… My GrandDad taught me that…. He was born in 1898…

@hr6334 Ай бұрын

Very Rad

@pianoman47 Ай бұрын

Tubular

@kyleward3914 Ай бұрын

@@pianoman47 Gnarly.

@whatwilliswastalkingabout 21 күн бұрын

Once again, the brothers take a regular old word and make it cool

@falonsound Ай бұрын

Videos like this in the future are gonna be real interesting when it comes to the evolving history of tiktok gen slang

@hhhsp951 Ай бұрын

Yeah well, that's just like, your opinion, man

@LunDruid Ай бұрын

Duuuuude!

@resourceress7 Ай бұрын

The google translation (in the KZfaq app) of this comment says "Whoops!"

@Allen2 Ай бұрын

At college in the 70s, Dude had just replaced Cat or Man from the 60s to refer to each other. We also developed various pronunciations, elongations, inflections, and emphasis techniques to convey other meanings. Example: no way Duuuuude = that's amazing; (response: way!) Heydude (short and quick) = hello while passing in the hallway or sidewalk.

@GBLtheMOTH 20 күн бұрын

Man this was me just 5 years ago when i watched the finale subtitled and started waiting for the movie, just looking around for all the theories and tweets from the creator. I really really REALLY hope they actually go for the 7th season and that the same crew will work on it. I definitely belive they made this show so great and wouldn't be the same if they hired other people to do it.

@djdissi 29 күн бұрын

Was today years old (61 yrs) when I learned this but wish I new this my whole life

@whoeveriam0iam14222 Ай бұрын

is dude gender neutral yet?

@B2WM Ай бұрын

Well, for the past twenty years or so, "I'm a dude, he's a dude, she's a dude, 'cause we're all dudes, yeah!"

@Scarybug Ай бұрын

Ask a 100 straight men how many dudes they've kissed and see if the majority assume women are included in the question.

@TheKosstImogen Ай бұрын

Well I was born in '91 and grew up watching Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on loop. Since I can remember I can't help but call any and everyone dude, regardless of gender, so for some of us it definitely is 😅 *Edit: Also yes Good Burger did help reinforce that a lot!

@quincy9908 Ай бұрын

Kinda. It definitely leads to more masculine, but it can definitely be used towards females. Most masculine pronouns do actually. Guy is another example.

@xinpingdonohoe3978 Ай бұрын

Is man?

@nickd4310 Ай бұрын

In my recollection, the term dude referred to an urban person on a ranch. Using it as a form of address was restricted to subcultures.

@keithmccormack6248 6 күн бұрын

Dude is a shortening of the phrase “Dud with an attitude.”

@HaydenTheEeeeeeeeevilEukaryote Ай бұрын

it’s one of my favorite, most used words

@pandoraeeris7860 Ай бұрын

Brah

@B2WM Ай бұрын

It's interesting how brah, bro, and bruh can evoke totally different contexts - one is impressive, one is familiar, and one is the dumbest thing one has ever seen in one's life. It's like the writing meme of rereading old stories from early in one's journey: "bro, I wrote that?" (Affectionate) vs "bruh, I wrote that?" (Embarrassed)