Date:  Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:12:53 -0700

From:  Peter McGraw <pmcgraw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CALVIN.LINFIELD.EDU>

Subject: Re: help a reporter?



On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Duane Campbell wrote:



> --- On Tue, 30 Apr 1996 14:44:27 -0500 "David Bergdahl (614) 593-2783"

> <BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU> wrote:

>

> >On DUH: my daughter Erika (who's 28) used this in its earlier form of DOY in

> >elementary school 20 yrs ago.

>

> DUH was a conversational staple in my high school years in Pennsylvania in the

> mid-1950's. Do I win anything?

>

>

> Duane Campbell

> dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net





Same here, also mid-50s, only across the country, in Oregon. But it was a

different DUH: always pronounced in a drawn-out monotone in conscious

imitation of a stereotypical person of low intelligence, never

incorporated into the normal sentence intonation pattern. We would never

have said, "Well duh!" (with the normal falling intonation) as you hear

it now.



I never heard of "doy".



Peter McGraw

Linfield College

McMinnville, OR