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Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Jun 19 20:02:44 UTC 2002
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, James A. Landau wrote:
> D'oh!, Doh! (Expression of frustration used when a person has done something
> stupid; popularized by Homer Simpson):
> antedate 1993
> (now antedated to 1945)
I posted a 1931 usage from Laurel and Hardy on ADS-L in March.
Fred Shapiro
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