New neighbor in the blogosphere

Georgia just started a blog! Stop by and take a looksee!

The temperature reached 105 according to our side porch thermometer. That has to be the high for this year...

I should have some more Ingrid pictures as soon as she gets home - which will most likely be around somewhere tomorrow. As far as I know from the latest news everything is going really well. All the tests so far have come back positive - Aaaaaaa - cut that - Negative!...

Yo! Once again our president gets in trouble for his grammar. Apparently he greeted Tony Blair with a hearty "Yo Blair!" when he was at group of eight summent yesterday (which is probobly where all the world leaders catch up on lost sleep...) . If you really think about it - I wonder if Blair even knows what "Yo" means since he's British. Is "Yo" a word outside America? Is it even a word in America or is it just slang?

According to Wikipedia.com

In American English slang, yo has become a common interjection that originated in African-American and Italian-American dialect.

According to some sources, the word first originated in the 1960s and 1970s in the Philadelphia area, though it is also said to have been used as a greeting by infantrymen in the second World War^{[citation needed]}. It most likely arose as a contraction or mispronunciation of the pronoun "you" or "your", although similar sounding words exist in other languages and dialects with meanings such as "here", and it is also sometimes used this way in English, as when answering a roll call.

"Yo" is also often interchangeable with the word "hey," as in "Yo, what's up?" or, "Yo! Wait for me!" While it can stand alone as a greeting, like the word "hey", it has a wide range of other meanings that depend on the tone, context, and situation. For example:

If someone is bothering another person, "Yo!" becomes the equivalent of saying "Hey! Stop it," or "Knock it off!"

If someone accidentially bumps into another person, the expression "Yo!" could be interpreted as "Watch it" or "What in the world!"

Another way of saying hi. Such as "Yo, What's up?"

My brother once met the friend of a friend who said that he met the man who invented the word Yo on a bus. I’m sort of inclined to be skeptical however that his story has merit….