YOLO

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• UK: /ˈjəʊləʊ/
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• US: /ˈjoʊloʊ/
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• rhymes with -əʊləʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: Y OW1 L OW2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The phrase (not the acronym) "you only live once" dates to the 19th century according to research by Katherine Martin, head of U.S. Dictionaries at Oxford University Press. It saw a steady increase of usage from 1940 to 2000. Ben Zimmer, lexicographer, found the earliest usage of the acronym from 1993, in a trademark filed for YOLO gear with "you only live once" in small lettering. The acronym was popularized around 2011 by Canadian rapper Drake. YOLO was entered into the Oxford English Dictionary as a word on September 12, 2016.

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: yolo — you only live once
• Dutch: je leeft maar één keer — you only live once
• Finnish: kerran sitä vain eletään — you only live once
• French: on ne vit qu’une fois — you only live once
• French: on n’a qu’une vie — you only live once
• Galician: só se vive unha vez — you only live once
• German: YOLO — you only live once
• Hungarian: Egyszer élünk! — you only live once
• Japanese: 一度きり (ichido kiri) — you only live once
• Polish: Raz się żyje! — you only live once
• Polish: Raz kozie śmierć! — you only live once
• Spanish: solo vives una vez — you only live once
• Spanish: solo se vive una vez — you only live once
• Swedish: man lever bara en gång — you only live once