No problem

In the culture of younger Americans, no problem is often used as a more conversational alternative to you're welcome.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-dont-we-say-youre-welcome-anymore_n_5a6fab14e4b0a52682fecef0|title=Why Don't We Say 'You're Welcome' Anymore?|first=Caroline|last=Bologna|date=March 1, 2018|website=HuffPost}}

It is widely believed that younger speakers especially favor no problem over you're welcome, and empirical research has corroborated this belief.{{cite journal |last=Dinkin |first=Aaron |title=It's no problem to be polite: Apparent-time change in responses to thanks |journal= Journal of Sociolinguistics|volume=22|issue=2|pages=190–215|doi=10.1111/josl.12278|year=2018 |url= https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/josl.12278}}{{Primary source inline|date=April 2019}}

"No problemo" is "a popular elaboration" of "no problem" also used and popularized in North American English.Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, eds., The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2006), [https://books.google.com/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&dq=%22no+problemo%22&pg=PA1383 p. 1383].

The expression is sometimes used as an instance of "pseudo-Spanish" or Mock Spanish.{{cite book |last1=Lipski |first1=John M |author1-link=John M. Lipski |editor1-last=Picone |editor1-first=Michael D. |editor2-last=Evans Davies |editor2-first=Catherine |title=New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South |date=2015 |pages=659–677 |url=https://johnlipski.github.io/LAVIS-sp.pdf |access-date=8 September 2023 |language=en |chapter=Is "Spanglish" the Third Language of the South?}} An early example appears in a 1959 edition of the American Import and Export Bulletin, with an advertisement stating: "Foreign shipping is No Problemo".American Import and Export Bulletin - Volumes 50-51 (1959), p. 278. Its usage as a Spanish expression is incorrect; a correct translation would be {{lang|es|ningún problema}}, {{lang|es|sin problema}} or {{lang|es|no hay problema}}. Many Spanish words from Latin roots that have English cognates have an -o in Spanish from the masculine Latin suffix -us, such as "insect" ({{lang|es|insecto}}), "pilot" ({{lang|es|piloto}}), and "leopard" ({{lang|es|leopardo}}); however, "problem" belongs to the group of words ending with an a in Spanish that have a similar English counterpart, such as "poet" ({{lang|es|poeta}}), "ceramic" ({{lang|es|cerámica}}) and "rat" ({{lang|es|rata}}). In the case of {{lang|es|problema}}, this is because it has a Greek 'ma' ending, and as such is among the Iberian words ending in 'ma', such as tema, which is in fact masculine.

• No worries
• Hakuna matata

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• {{cite book | url = http://mek.oszk.hu/07500/07558/07558.pdf | pages = 153–164 | title = No Problem | first = József | last = Andor | date = 2008 | work = UPRT 2008: Empirical Studies in English Applied Linguistics | publisher = Lingua Franca Csoport | isbn = 978-963-642-300-1 }}
• {{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=noFY5I0hdekC&pg=PT106 | title = Webster's New World American Idioms Handbook | first = Gail | last = Brenner | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | date = September 23, 2011 | isbn = 9780764524776 }}
• {{cite web | url = http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/11/29/the_un_welcome/ | title = The un-welcome - What's the problem with 'no problem'? | first = Erin | last = McKean | date = November 29, 2009 | publisher = The Boston Globe }}
• {{cite web | url = http://observer.com/2003/11/my-problem-with-no-problem-its-destroying-civility/ | title = My Problem with 'No Problem': It's Destroying Civility | first = Kristen | last = Richardson | date = November 10, 2011 | publisher = The New York Observer }}
• {{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wy6E-sZRV_oC&pg=PA101 | title = No problem, you're welcome, anytime: Responding to thanks in Ireland, England, and the USA | work = The Pragmatics of Irish English | isbn = 3110184699 | year = 2005 | first = Klaus P. | last = Schneider | pages = 101–139 | publisher = Walter de Gruyter }}
• {{cite web | url = http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/01/29/61012/heres-the-problem-no-problem-is.html | title = Here's the problem: 'No problem' is replacing 'You're welcome' | first = Maria | last = Tucker | date = January 29, 2009 | publisher = McClatchy Newspapers }}

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