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Doh! Was Re: boulders on shoulders
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 20 Jun 2001 15:00:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
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> > Doh!
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> That's a recognized English word now. I wish I were still in college so I
> could use it in a paper!
The semester after I got my M.A. in English our comp exams were made available
for everyone to view (no names!). As I looked through them I noticed one
professor wrote "Duh!"(1) in the margin to comment on what someone had written
(no, it wasn't my paper!).
Maggie C.
(1) variant form
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| (...) I'm not sure "Duh" is a variant form of "Doh" (or verse-vica, vice-versey, victor-victoria). I've heard Homer say "Duuuuu-uh!" before, and the context is decidedly different. Doh attends misfortune (usually as an exaggeration, as when someone (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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