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It would be my honor. But the origins of the name are (1) it's my first name plus initial; (2) it was my email address at my first job; and (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake, which I knew there would be a lot of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494440

bonus credit to DonHopkins https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18513120



> ['dang': ] (3) it's what you say when you make a mistake

For the philologist, from around 1780, The chapter of accidents: a comedy by Sophia Lee.

> Jacob: Dang it, doan't I zeay, I'll tell thee present...

> dang it, I thought at first I ha' zwounded...

https://archive.org/details/chapteraccident00leegoog/page/n4...

...But I also immediately think of Gary Larson.


Wow. 18th century philology FTW!

How on earth did you find that?


> How on earth

My friend, have you noticed in these few years that I believe in particular attention to words? :)

It was pretty easy: Etymonline, which is part of my few core references as "dictionary of meaning" (as opposed to "dictionary of use"), gives the first clues at https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dang . Then I looked for the original text and checked the details.


I always thought it was 3)


Dang, because of the lowercase g I've always read it as Dang and said it with a twang in my head.




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