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Are you a native English speaker from the West coast of the United States? I would guess so? It is a subtle linguistic reference that lost on most of the rest of the world.

Or as the Californian youth used to say: SIIIIIIIKE

It turns out that it was appropriately named!

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I don’t think you need to be from the west coast to understand people saying SIKE. It’s a pretty common phrase across the US. I’m from Colorado and I heard that a fair amount growing up. Agree on the appropriate name though it was my first thought reading that it had been broken.

That’s nice to know, I didn’t realize that it wasn’t purely a matter of regional dialect. Thank you.

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