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Old Oct 15, 2003 | 2:18 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by wharvey:
A "DO" is simply a word coined to represent a gathering of Flyertalkers.
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The word "do" with the meaning "party" is definitely NOT a specially-coined word!

Prior thread on this very same subject

To quote myself, "In the Oxford English Dictionary (OED2 on CD-ROM, version 1.14, copyright 1994), the earliest citation of "do" meaning "party" dates from 1824."


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