Who or what is DH?
Sep 30th, 2005, 08:52 PM
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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.
Oct 1st, 2005, 05:39 AM
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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"?
Oct 1st, 2005, 06:10 AM
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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.
Oct 1st, 2005, 06:43 AM
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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?)
Calling someone "darling" is quiet common in London. (Remember the Julie Christie movie?)
Oct 1st, 2005, 06:52 AM
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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?
Oct 1st, 2005, 07:02 AM
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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....
Oct 1st, 2005, 08:01 AM
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Our local farms here grow lots of corn, making this a mini Iowa-with-hills, so calling total strangers "dear" or "darling" on a public internet board sounds like some affected shtick to this Brooklyn-born New Jerseyan, too. Calling one's spouse, child, or dog "dear" is common when speaking to them, but referring to one's husband as "dear" or "darling" when posting travel info to a few thousand of ones dearest never-seen "friends" on a huge public internet board? I don't know.... Now referring to "my husband" or "my wife"--that has a nice natural multi-purpose ring to it, appropriate in any context, don't ya think?
