Duh! vs. Doy!

[James Smith]

My experience (56) is also using and hearing "no doy",
never bare "doy".  However, both "duh" and "no duh"
are familiar.


--- "Steve Kl." <stevekl at PANIX.COM> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, David Bergdahl wrote:
>
> > When my daughter Erika (35) was in elementary
> school "doy!" was the way
> > someone said the teacher was pitching instruction
> at too elementary a level;
>
> In my neck of the Michigan woods (I, too, am 35) we
> almost exclusively
> said "No doy" for what it's worth. In my idiolect, I
> have both "duh" and
> "no duh", but bare "doy" sounds a bit odd.
>
> -- Steve


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