y/o

y/o

1. Abbreviation of year(s) old; also yo, y.o.
2. (knitting) Abbreviation of yarnover.

• oy

• y/u (used before words beginning with an ‘o’ sound)

Calque of English and/or.

• IPA^(key): /i o/ [i o]

y/o

1. and/or

• The Royal Spanish Academy advises against the use of this formula unless it is necessary to avoid ambiguity in very technical contexts since the conjunction o can express both values together.

• “y”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN