The Manic Street Preachers according to Homer Simpson...
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 20:04
Subject: Homer revisited ...
> The Good Word on the "d" word, from the OED Themselves (June 2001
> Newsletter):
>
> In this issue of OED News are some 'taster' entries for two new items
> published this quarter - doh! and cyberphobia. The first is an expression
> popularized by Homer Simpson, although he was by no means the first to use
> it; the second is just one of the many cyber- compounds which emerged in the
> 1990s.
>
> http://www.oed.com/public/news/0106.htm
>
> If you go to the URL above, you can see the complete OED entry on "doh,
> int.", of which Homer's utterance is but a part.
>
> Clever buggers, those OED folks ...
>
> Now if anyone knows how to access it without having to pay the £350 per
> annum subscription ...
>
> Robin Hamilton
>
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