I don’t mean to turn this into some sort of Duke vs Carolina thing, because, it’s not really something I care very much about. As a parent whose child chose the former, my main interest was SAT scores not basketball scores. But could someone give an explanation of why referring to Duke as “dook” does not reflect badly on the person using the “insult.? Not being from around these parts, to me it simply suggests that the person using it never learned to spell properly–possibly he is a product of government schools. I don’t quite get why it would reflect badly on the object of the alleged insult. Since Jeff used it maybe he can give us out-of-towners some context for understanding this differently.
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