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Re: Doh!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 04:23:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Shiri Dori writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > But I wonder where the genesis of "Doh" is. "Duh" comes from
> > a syllable attributed to the slow-witted, and is imitative in
> > its origin.
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> Actually, the way I understood it, "duh" originates from the Russian "yes"
> (dah)... as in, duh = "yeah yeah yeah..." I'm not sure if that is true, but
> in Israel we tend to have jokes about that, us having tons of Russian
> immigrants and so forth... so I thought that might have been the original.
> But then again, in Hebrew the long "a" sound and the short "u" sound are
> pronounce dthe same... so go figure.
That sounds as good as any other explanation. But how about this: is the
word used in the following post
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/fun/?n=7329
a variant of "duh" or "doh" or just a typo? Or should I be asking the actual
author of the post (who would most likely never admit to the third
possibility)? And Lindsay, please don't tell me it is none of the above-- I'm
feeling sauternine enough at having failed to distinguish the difference
between doh and duh.
Maggie
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| (...) Ack, I didn't intend to induce such feelings. :) Anyways, WOW, Larry used "doi!" I haven't seen or said that in at least 15 years. It's right up there with "durrrrrrr"! It is in my experience a derivative of "duh," but only in the sense of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Actually, the way I understood it, "duh" originates from the Russian "yes" (dah)... as in, duh = "yeah yeah yeah..." I'm not sure if that is true, but in Israel we tend to have jokes about that, us having tons of Russian immigrants and so (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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