Talk:how-d'ye-do

Questions

1. Shouldn't this identify the greeting form also?
2. Is this use endemic to a specific region?

--Connel MacKenzie 16:40, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The greeting is not usually (ever?) hyphenated. Equinox ◑ 15:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

alt spelling

We should probably also have the alternate spelling how-de-do, at least as a redirect, as in the following from Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado Here's a how-de-do! If I marry you, When your time has come to perish, Then the maiden whom you cherish Must be slaughter'd too! Here's a how-de-do! Here's a how-de-do!

--Dvortygirl 16:43, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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how-d'ye-do

Sense: the greeting. I've never seen it hyphenated. Equinox ◑ 15:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Cited, probably dated/archaic. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 16:26, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

RFV-passed. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 23:09, 24 August 2023 (UTC)