'Dude', 'mate' — the Mexican vocative (also 'güey'), attached to the end of every sentence by every Mexican under fifty and heard, by anglophones online, so often that it entered their own sentences. The record's entry for the word that means 'friend', 'idiot', and 'you', depending entirely on the eyebrows.
A reader insists the correct spelling is 'güey' and that 'wey' is texting. The record replies that texting is where the record lives.
Spotted on a laminated sign in a chain café, Ghent, May this year. Wey, in a headline font. A manager did this on purpose and I would like their name for the record.
The record notes 'wey' is from 'buey', an ox, that nobody pictures the ox, and that the record has heard it used sixteen times in a single sentence about a taco.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
