Everybody’s going bro this and bruh that, but you’re not my brother, dude 😒
It’s not like either word is new but I feel like “bro” and variations like bruh or brah have become way more commonly used in the last decade among younger people as a term of address in contexts where I would have just said dude
I have fond memories of my elementary school teacher in the 80’s (northeast US) getting absolutely enraged anytime someone in our class said Dude. And she would respond with “
A DUDE IS THE FIRST HAIR ON AN ELEPHANT’S ASS!” and we loved it. 