Talk:yo

Is yo also an abbreviation for "-year-old"?
Is yo also an abbreviation for suffix -year-old? Or is this non-standard? Observed:


 * "..., and a 10yo daughter, both of whom ..."

If it is, should it be "..., and a 10-yo daughter, both of whom ..."?

--Mortense 09:38, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I've seen it used that way, yes. I think it was without the hyphen (though I see now that it's been added since). JodianWarrior (talk) 15:36, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
 * That meaning is already included under yo. Cheers, --biblbroksдискашн 16:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Who capitalises YO for "years old", by the way? I've seen "3yo" etc. very often but never in caps. Equinox ◑ 21:06, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Clarification of Spanish Pronunciation
Could the three different pronunciations for Spanish be labelled with the region they are used in? JodianWarrior (talk) 15:36, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: July–September 2016
Abbreviation for yo-yo. Tried a few Google Books searches for sentence fragments ("the yo and", etc.); could not find anything. Equinox ◑ 23:29, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I tried looking for possible plural forms (her yo(e)s, his yo(e)s, their yo(e)s), and also found nothing relevant. I did, however, unearth yoe, which seems to be a dialectal term for a lamb: see, , , , . There was also this reference to yos, which seems to be some sort of clothing. However, it's a science-fiction novel, so it could be a totally made-up word. — SMUconlaw (talk) 11:45, 5 July 2016 (UTC)


 * The "yoes" you found seems to be dialect for "ewes", i.e. adult female sheep. Equinox ◑ 11:49, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * See reference 120 above, though. "Ewes dropping ewes" can't be right. — SMUconlaw (talk) 11:51, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
 * But OED agrees with you: "representing a dialect (especially US) pronunciation of ewe", also spelled yow(e) (my paraphrase). Predictably, OED does not give yo as an abbreviation of yo-yo. Maybe Usenet might yield some results? — SMUconlaw (talk) 11:56, 5 July 2016 (UTC)


 * RFV failed. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 19:43, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

嚛 /hu/
Can sb. confirm? --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:00, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Interjection of effort
Chambers 1908 also defines yo as "interj. expressive of effort, etc." We don't have that here, though we do have. Equinox ◑ 18:04, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Etymology 2 From you're, your,
how's it pronounced when it comes from you're or your? --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:28, 30 November 2019 (UTC)