Okay I have to ask . . .
Apr. 30th, 2005 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What does the designation "DH" mean in Internet speak, anyway? I've seen it for years but never known. It seems to refer to the poster's significant other (is it always male?). Why not use SO? What does it stand for, specifically? Dear Honey? Dorky Hug-a-lot? Dense Homeboy? What???
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Date: 2005-05-01 04:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-01 04:22 am (UTC)It really does seem to be ubiquitous. I wonder when it first appeared.
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Date: 2005-05-01 04:34 am (UTC)K. [I bet it came over when AOL was ported to the Internet in 1994 or 1995, but I am just supposing]
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Date: 2005-05-01 04:35 am (UTC)Speaking as one who fully understands the concept of 'stash'
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Date: 2005-05-01 04:57 am (UTC)But in the case of people who are using it to mean Dear Husband, I suspect that often Dense Homeboy would work just as well. ;-)
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Date: 2005-05-01 06:23 am (UTC)The pregnancy forum also had AF (for Aunt Flo) and any number of other "cute" acronyms.
It kind of bugs me for personal reasons, like borrowing somebody else's nickname to hang on your significant other, so I would never use it. But...different strokes and all that.
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Date: 2005-05-01 09:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-01 09:40 am (UTC)Similarily DW, DS, DD are often used for Dear/Darling Wife, Son and Daughter.
I tend to use DH, because I'm not too sure how he'd feel having his name on the web so often. A bit silly perhaps, as I'm not careful about writing my own name. I might as well write SO, but have just gotten used to DH. I've been on an L.M. Montgomery mailing list since 1995 and people there have always used DH rather than SO - it's become a habit.
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Date: 2005-05-01 05:04 pm (UTC)I've also seen so, dw, dp, and df. Also xh. For kids there's dd and ds, and if you're a blended family there's dsd and dss. And of course there's MIL and FIL and SIL and BIL and X can be appended to any of those, as need be. Or STBX (soon-to-be-ex) or "future" (which usually seems to be typed out, rather than abbreviated to F). Which reminds me, I have on a few occasions seen FH when someone is really fed up.