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Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Thu Jun 20 13:33:30 UTC 2002


On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 04:02:44PM -0400, Fred Shapiro wrote:
> 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.

Which OED can't cite directly.

Jesse Sheidlower



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