Posted by Jonathan Labaree on November 12, 2002 at 17:48:13 from 207.5.234.19 user JLabaree.
In Reply to: Preserving the richness and subtlety of the English language was: Naming a yacht - continued-duh...huh? posted by Allan Lang on November 12, 2002 at 02:08:29:
Allan,
I think "duh" was around much earlier than the mid-80s. We were saying it to each other when I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. If the expression made it that far into the hinterland, it must have been around a while somewhere else, too.
- Jonathan