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This may be apocryphal but I've heard that "howdy" is essentially a contraction of "how do you do" Edit: Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy https://en.wi
by andrewpbrett 5y ago
This may be apocryphal but I've heard that "howdy" is essentially a contraction of "how do you do"
Edit: Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy
- TeMPOraL 5y agoI've always assumed that "howdy" was a word from the vernacular of a small regional community in some random US location, that got promoted to mainstream English - individual words from dialects sometimes get picked up and adopted into "canonical" language.