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Doh!
Adhemar Started conversation Jun 17, 2001
In the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionnary OED (Thursday June 14, 2001), Homer's catchphrase "Doh" is now recognised as an official English word.
Doh!
fatiguecracks Posted Jul 16, 2001
In the episode showing how Lisa got her saxophone the word D' Oh is shown written down. Begging the question what does the apostrophe stand for?
Also the fact that the dictionary lists a new word isn't necessarily an indiation of falling linguistic standards but of the fact that English is a descriptive language rather that a prescriptive language (such as French). This means that if we choose to use a word and its use becomes widespread it will be included in the dictionary. In a prescriptive language the word must pass some sort of standards commitee to establish proper linguistic uses.
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