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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