Di doo dah was created in 1973.
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah was created in 1962.
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band was created in 1962.
"Zippity Doo Dah" is from Disney's "Song of the South"
Lah-Di-Dah was created in 1991.
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di-di-dit dah dit di-dah-di-dit di-dah-di-dit di-dah
doo dah dah did.
Trochee is a French word and has been for more than 500 years, but only the biggest and best dictionaries now have it.The English translation is the same word; its meaning in both languages is identical. It refers to meter in a poem; the stress on the syllables alternates. The possibilities are :-di DAH di DAH di DAH di DAH etc. or DAH di DAH di DAH di DAH di etc.
De Camptown ladies sing this song, Doo-da, Doo-da De Camptown racetrack's five miles long Oh, de doo-da day I went down South with my hat caved in, Doo-da, doo-da I came back North with a pocket full of tin Oh, de doo-da day Chorus ============================================================== De long tail filly and de big black hoss, Doo dah! doo dah! Dey fly de track and de both cut across Oh, de doo-da day. De blind hoss sticken in a big mud hole, Doo dah! doo dah! Can't touch bottom with a ten foot pole Oh, de doo-da day. Chorus Old mulley cow come onto de track, Doo dah! doo dah! De bobtail fling her ober his back, Oh, de doo-da day. Den fly along like a railroad car, Doo dah! doo dah! Runnin' a race wid a shootin' star Oh, de doo-da day. Chorus See dem flyin' on a ten mile heat, Doo dah! doo dah! Round de race track den repeat, Oh, de doo-da day. I win my money on de bobtail nag, Doo dah! doo dah! I keep my money in an old towbag, Oh, de doo-da day.
In radiotelephone service, a text dash is pronounced as "dash". In Morse Code . . . => A hyphen (single dash) is sounded as " dah - di - di - di - di - dah " => An "equals" sign or "double dash" or "break in text" is sounded as " dah - di - di - di - dah "
Most of Shakespeare's plays are in iambic pentameters, where there are five iambs (di-dah sound) to the line. Thus each line has the metre di-dah di-dah di-dah di-dah di-dah. eg But soft. What light through yonder window breaks? The speech of the common people, servants, labourers and the like is usually in common prose as befits their station in life.