Posters occasionally use the letters DH? What do these letters stand for?

I'm not an english-speaking person..but I think it stands for Dear Hubby

took me a while too; dear husband. Someone else asked this and there were some funny variants mentioned.

Thank you for your quick replies....but surely you jest??

Designated Hitter.

It's a joke the American League played on the otherwise rational game of baseball a number of years ago, and it's stuck (with it).

Dear Husband...
What did you think it stood for ?
LOL

And for some reason DHs greatly outnumber DWs on this site.

I used to think it stood for "divorced husband" or "damn husband" because "dear husband" or "darling husband" usually sounded too saccharine in th context in which I was reading it.

It's an Internet/email era acronym, ala LOL, ROFL, IMHO, LMAO etc etc etc

What are better alternatives?

TH -

Tolerated Spouse?

Suggested alternative to "DH," which mystifies so many people, and causes a break in the rhythm of the communication even for some of us who now know what it means: how about simply "my husband"?

You know, I'd just never seen the "DH" or "DW" acronym on the internet before either. And I've been on a lot of different types of internet boards and such. I think, unlike LOL, it's pretty much a Fodors board thing. Could have migrated from another board though.

I didn't know what it meant either. Neither dear or darling had ever occurred to me, but someone has asked before. I'm only in my 40's, so I've never actually heard anyone call another person "dear" or "darling" without being in the midst of a Gabor sister impression.

Cmt, I, too, prefer your suggested alternative.

About the "darling." I am British, hence my using the word here all the time. You have to realise, Clifton, that not everyone on this site is from Iowa. Calling someone "darling" is quiet common in London. (Remember the Julie Christie movie?)

Ah, I can see your point. The "darling" term rings hollow amongst the corn. Of course, having been but never called, and having family in the London area who too have not called me darling, may now leave me searching for a bit of therapy. That is, if it's truly such a common term. Is that London-wide Or does it depend on the street corner?

Thin, the more I thought about it, the more I hoped that last line came across as the good-natured tease it was intended to be. I know you can handle it, but thought about it anyway. God I AM midwestern....

Do as I do: it makes a thread much more interesting if you read every <i>DH</i> as <i>Dennis Hastert</i>.

Nimrod, do you use the Chinese fortune cookie trick too?

It's amazing what a difference the meaning when you use &quot;in bed&quot; to complete the fortune in the cookie

Our local farms here grow lots of corn, making this a mini Iowa-with-hills, so calling total strangers &quot;dear&quot; or &quot;darling&quot; on a public internet board sounds like some affected shtick to this Brooklyn-born New Jerseyan, too. Calling one's spouse, child, or dog &quot;dear&quot; is common when speaking to them, but referring to one's husband as &quot;dear&quot; or &quot;darling&quot; when posting travel info to a few thousand of ones dearest never-seen &quot;friends&quot; on a huge public internet board? I don't know.... Now referring to &quot;my husband&quot; or &quot;my wife&quot;--that has a nice natural multi-purpose ring to it, appropriate in any context, don't ya think?

well, <b>darlin</b> I have been known on occasion to say that Damn Hound when Pup ((&amp) gets in my way, so why not fill in the DH with whatever tickles your fancy