<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I agree. Okrand is closer to my age than SuStel’s. Likely SuStel has less similar meme context than Okrand, you and I, being such a youngster. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 13, 2020, at 6:12 PM, Alan Anderson <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 10:19 AM SuStel <<a href="mailto:sustel@trimboli.name">sustel@trimboli.name</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Since this is the only context in which anyone remembers the word
<i>dogies</i> nowadays, I have no doubt that Okrand was thinking
about this song when he invented the word.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps that's true "nowadays", but I can assure you that the song isn't why *I* know the word.
I have a *lot* of doubt that he was thinking about the song in particular. It was obviously more common in popular culture 40-50 years ago, when western shows like Rawhide and Bonanza were ubiquitous, before the "deruralization" of television.<br><br>-- ghunchu'wI'</div></div></div>
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