This word dude. Let us ponder its very dudeness. See how it slips so effortlessly from the mouths of so many.
Relationships rise and fall on the power of dude.
Entire conversations can be had with this one word. Hundreds of thousands of entries in the dictionary, and it all comes down to dude. What a victory for the underdog of words that rose, in less than 100 years, from near obscurity to total prominence. It stands on the corner attempting to mash the girls as it pulls at a feeble mustache. Around 1883 the word dude came into common use and with the one-syllable pronunciation used today.