DogGONE!!

[Wilson Gray]

That takes me back, Charlie. WRT my friends and me, it was fixed in
the form, "Jim Dawg," "Jim" having replaced "Jack" (cf. the much more
recent use: _Werewolves of London_: "Don't mess with him / He'll tear
your lungs out, Jim!") as the hip form of address. At the same time,
1951, there was a popular jazz tune named "Jim Dawg," by Gene Ammons
and Sonny Stitt. This helped spread the use of "Jim Dawg" as a form of
address.

-Wilson

On 9/4/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> When my son played high school football (in Georgia) in the late 1980s, the players--most of whom were African American--would affectionatey refer to their teammates (including white ones) by appending "Dog" to forenames or nicknames, especially monosyllables: Thus "Lew-Dog" and "Mike-Dog" and "Vince-Dog" (for example).
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:06:46 -0700
> >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> >
> >This came to my attention too late to get into HDAS 1. Some exx.
> >
> >  1996 _Martin_ (Fox-TV): Come on, dog! Look!
> >
> >  1997 _N.Y. Times_ (Jan. 25) (Metro) 25: _Dog_...buddy.
> >
> >  *1998 _markie 19/M england_ (Usenet: alt.teens.pen-pals) (Nov. 27) http://groups.google.com/group/alt.teens.penpals/msg/d6e09ea8e8f68cdf?hl=en&: Oh and all americans say "hey dawg wazzup dawg" originality please!
> >
> >  1999 _Everybody Loves Raymond_ (CBS-TV): "Dog." That's a nice thing. You say it to your  friends. It means "I like you."
> >
> >  2000 M. Rich _Finding Forrester_ (film): I'm your _brother_, dog! ...You're the man now, dog!
> >
> >  2000 W. Shatner, on Priceline.com TV ad: You want some of this? Then you know what to do, dog! Bust a move!
> >
> >  2002 _Fox & Friends_ (FNC-TV) (May 10): He's a cool dog.
> >
> >  2002 _JAG_ (CBS-TV): Whyn't you call the nurse, dog?
> >
> >  By 1997 it was endemic among my (mostly white) undergraduates. It's usually used in direct address, and mostly to and in ref. to men.
> >
> >  JL
> >
> >Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> >This usage of "dog" is years old. My guess is that, if this is new to
> >you, you don't have any relationships with black people deep enough to
> >motivate you to demonstrate any degree of hipness nor do you pay any
> >attention to TV shows that feature black characters. So, if I were
> >you, I wouldn't give it a second thought. It's not worth the effort.
> >
> >-Wilson
> >
> >On 9/2/07, Doug Harris wrote:
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> >> From today's LA Times, by a female black reporter from
> >> Britain, who spent 14 months in New Orleans post-Katrina.
> >> (Note the 'dog' reference in the second paragraph):
> >>
> >> "Our people be everywhere," Dwayne Holmes, a heavyset African American
> >> 16-year-old, said with a grin one day as he and his pals sat on a stoop on a
> >> street in crime-plagued Central City.
> >> Holmes wanted to know whether black youth in England also called each
> >> other "dog" as a term of endearment.
> >> For the most part, we have our own lingo, I told him.
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> >> Is this a new usage? Being neither black nor what the quoted reporter refers
> >> to as a New Orleanian, I have no idea if this "term of endearment" is one
> >> that's been in use there a while, or if it's to be found elsewhere, too.
> >> 'Any insights, anyone?
> >> (the other) doug
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