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On walkways around Penn's campus, I'm hearing bro more and more often. Especially common, or at least especially striking, is a monosyllabic response meaning something like "You're kidding!" A: So then they [blah blah]… B: Bro! …which I'm hearing as often among groups of female students as male students (though I admit that the added […]

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