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Doggone

Posted by ESC on September 24, 2003

In Reply to: When and how did it start posted by Cheryl on September 24, 2003

: When and how did the expression "DOGGONE IT" start?

DOGGONE -- perhaps from the Scotch "dagone," gone to the dogs, or maybe an alteration of G*ddamn, 1851; doggoned, 1857. From I Hear America Talking: An Illustrated History of American Words and Phrases by Stuart Berg Flexner (Von Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 1976).

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