You won't believe where the word "dude" actually came from

https://www.dictionaryscoop.com/article/You-wont-believe-where-the-word-dude-actually-came-from?x_title=2&utm_source=blog&utm_campaign=blog-race-20260730-2 Have you ever stopped to wonder where our everyday words actually come from? You might be surprised to learn that dude started as a way to poke fun at men who were too fastidious about their outfits. Or that we owe the word hello to Thomas Edison, who thought it was a much better choice than Alexander Graham Bell’s suggestion, "ahoy" for telephone calls. Even the word OK is the lone survivor of an 1830s game of misspelled