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I'm pretty sure it's brah, coming from Hawaiian pidgin. It's a shortening of braddah (i.e. brother).
by scheme271 5y ago
I'm pretty sure it's brah, coming from Hawaiian pidgin. It's a shortening of braddah (i.e. brother).
- WorldMaker 5y agoI'm sure both still exist. Slang always is prone to regionalisms and in-group markings. What I've heard (on Xbox voice chat primarily) as commonly used today is "bruh" like much closer to how most people pronounce "duh". I don't know where it originates dialectally other than "often heard in Fortnite and Minecraft". (Definitely the one closer to my youth came closer to "bra"/"brah", and while some of that was assumed to be surfer-originated, I can't tell you how much it was related to Hawaiian pigdin or just convergent evolutionary vowel shifts.)