{"id":795,"date":"2025-09-16T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T17:08:54","slug":"definition-of-the-day-u-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Definition of the Day: U-Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Definition: U\u00b7Right | y\u028a &#8211; ra\u026at<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>: clothing retailer brand that opened in Hong Kong in 1983 and grew to a network of 65 stores in Hong Kong alone and 360 franchises in mainland China in 2007. In 2008, founder and chairman Leung Ngok declared bankruptcy. According to Wikipedia article for U-Right, &#8220;Retail stores were closed down and 160 employees were laid off.&#8221;*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>: also reminds me a little of saying &#8220;you alright?&#8221; in a heavy, &#8220;yerr&#8221; NYC accent. For those who don&#8217;t know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NYKnicks\/comments\/enzxrj\/what_is_the_origin_of_yerrrrrrrrrrrrr\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NYKnicks\/comments\/enzxrj\/what_is_the_origin_of_yerrrrrrrrrrrrr\/\">&#8220;its a NYC thing.<\/a>&#8221; (sic)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3098.heic\" alt=\"Red tee with neon stripe ribbon around the neckline. Tag says &quot;u-right&quot; with a red circle around the &quot;u.&quot; Another newer tag says &quot;Beacon's Closet $9.95.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-797\" style=\"width:461px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I only wanted a new plain t-shirt, and I wasn&#8217;t expecting to find anything vintage, but oh ok this is cool &#8211; sold. #shoplocal #shopvintage #thrift<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Definitions sourced from Beacon&#8217;s Closet, Reddit, Yerr NYC, and Wikipedia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Note: The &#8220;History&#8221; section of the Wikipedia article referenced articles in IB Times and Hong Kong Financial News but with now defunct links. It seems that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\">International Business Times<\/a><\/em> may not have the article public anymore, and &#8220;hkfinancialnews.com&#8221; may not exist at all anymore. Who were the 160 employees who were laid off after the company&#8217;s assets were liquidated?If you try asking Gemini or ChatGPT, you will arrive at the same conclusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep sharing your layoff stories. Don&#8217;t count on anyone else to preserve your history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: U\u00b7Right | y\u028a &#8211; ra\u026at 1. : clothing retailer brand that opened in Hong Kong in 1983 and grew to a network of 65 stores in Hong Kong alone and 360 franchises in mainland China in 2007. In 2008, founder and chairman Leung Ngok declared bankruptcy. According to Wikipedia article for U-Right, &#8220;Retail stores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julialipscomb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}