"doggy-dog"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 18:08:24 -0700, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>The current ubiquity of "a doggy-dog world" is perhaps related to publicity
>for fo-shizzle rappizzle Snoop Dogg (formerly "Snoop Doggy Dogg"), as here:
>
>2005 _XXL_ (June) 30 "Man, it's about time Snoop D-O-Double-G got his props
>['credit or recognition']....It's a doggy-dog world."

Snoop's repeating himself... his 1993 debut album, _Doggystyle_, had a
song called "Doggy Dogg World".  See the Eggcorn Database entry for a link
to the lyrics: <http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/348/doggy-dog/>.



--Ben Zimmer