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Each roughly 50-minute piece uses the human-dog connection to illuminate social issues, cultural differences, personal suffering, and how our doggos help us understand and overcome them.—Jen Chaney Splayed toes can cause nerve damage in the long term and lack of traction in the short term, which can lead to accidents when your doggo goes zooming after the mailman and loses its footing.—Susan Arendt A dog could sure use a fitness tracker this time of year. All holiday season, ham and turkey has been mysteriously "falling to the floor," right in front of an all-too-willing doggo.—Pia Ceres and David Pierce

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: in hiding to avoid notice or detection

—used chiefly in the phrase lie doggoLucan said that he would "lie doggo for a bit", and nothing has been heard of him in the past thirteen years.—Julian Symons… nuclear submarines can lie doggo for months on the ocean bed until the designated target comes within reach.—Alain Jacob

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In the early 2010s—the years Chayka longs for—the internet was all doge and doggos.

—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023

Each adorable pic of your doggo is a true reflection of their personality.

—Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 5 Apr. 2023

John Wick, defender of doggos, just resplendent with puppers — that’s something that needs explaining?!

—Vulture, 17 Mar. 2023

Your doggo will love the delicious taste of duck and sweet potato in this premium dry dog food blend from Natural Balance.

—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022

Take in the rainbow hues of sunset with a view of the towering Organ Mountains in the distance while snuggling your favorite doggo — they're allowed in the backcountry campsites, too.

—Emily Pennington, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2021

From being in unimaginable pain with a depressed spirit to a spry, bouncy and excitable doggo, his transformation is just one of thousands seen at AHS every year.

—The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023

Yes Astoria-Warrenton-Seaside KOA (Astoria, Oregon) Comb the beaches of Astoria with your doggo using this quaint coastal Oregon campsite as your home base.

—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023

Texas Beef Stew is a grain-free dog food with non-GMO veggies and a hearty protein that will satisfy even the most finicky doggo, thanks to flavorful ingredients.

—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022

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What does doggo and pupper mean?

Doggo and pupper are affectionate terms for dog and puppy used in the internet slang called DoggoLingo. Heckin good words, 13/10!

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Where does doggo come from?

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There is an entire internet slang language known as DoggoLingo, which emerged in the 2010s and drew on existing online culture, such as lolspeak, the snek meme, and Doge.

DoggoLingo uses cutesy spellings and doggy onomatopoeias like mlem, borf, and heckin to drool over man’s best friend online—and the many, many pictures and videos we post of them.

WATCH: Do You Know How To Speak DoggoLingo?

Doggo and pupper are two key words in the lingo. Doggos tend to be older and larger (duh!), and puppers, younger and smaller. A YouTube video, “What is a Pupper? What is a Doggo?”, explained the difference in May, 2017 around the peak of DoggoLingo. The adorable explainer has since had over 1.5 million views.

Though the exact progression of puppy to pupper and dog to doggo is unclear, there are a few instances that helped catapult the terms into popular lexicon.

In May, 2015, an image of a chihuahua wearing a hoodie was featured on 4chan. The image promised a good night’s rest to anyone who replied with “slight tight pupper.” Pupper changes puppy for greater cuteness. The chihuahua image spread to sites such as 9Gag, BodyBuilding, FunnyJunk, and Reddit’s r/4chanmeta, inspiring parodies of the image that often featured, and helped spread, pupper.

In 2008, a group called Dogspotting formed on Facebook devoted to—what else—dog pictures. It became very popular in 2014, especially in Australia. This is significant as Australians often add an affectionate -o to the end of words, giving rise to doggo.

Starting in 2015, the massively popular Twitter account, We Rate Dogs (@dog_rates), helped further popularize doggo and pupper.

Very funny guys. We only rate dogs. Please do not send in Happy Kitchen Bears. We will not rate them. Thank you… 12/10 pic.twitter.com/o43apVNaQh

— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 3, 2018

Examples of doggo

From pupper to 1 year old doggo!

@wounderfullwor5, May, 2018

enjoying the screened in porch with the pupper. she's snoozin. i'm job hunting.

@a2lisa, May, 2008

Buster, a very good doggo, picked the Washington Capitals to win the Stanley Cup

Donya Abramo, Russian Machine Never Breaks (headline), April, 2018

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DoggoLingo like doggo and pupper are used to comment on or post about cute dogs online—unlike Doge, which imagines the speech of dogs. They are almost always used in wholesome, loving, endearing, and affirming ways, with doggo or pupper-titled videos shared on social media for pick-me-ups and feel-good moments.

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Due to its popularity, some people have adopted doggo and pupper in their actual speech. People have even extended doggo and pupper as pet names for people (e.g., Look at the dancing doggo).

Users often add intentionally misspelled and ungrammatical terms alongside doggo and pupper for additional fawning (e.g., Here’s the goodest smol pupper).

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e Did 'Doggo' Come From? Wouldn't You Like to Know, Fren | WIREDSkip to main contentOpen Navigation MenuMenuStory SavedTo revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Close AlertMeme’s Best Friend: The Rise of 'Doggo'SecurityPoliticsGearBackchannelBusinessScienceCultureIdeasMerchMoreChevronStory SavedTo revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.Close AlertSign InSearchSearchSecurityPoliticsGearBackchannelBusinessScienceCultureIdeasMerchPodcastsVideoWired WorldArtificial IntelligenceClimateGamesNewslettersMagazineEventsWIRED InsiderJobsCouponsAndrea ValdezCultureJan 10, 2018 1:53 PMMeme’s Best Friend: The Rise of 'Doggo'How a possibly-Australian bit of slang came to dominate your social media feeds.hello hooman frens, i is an inturnet fee-nom. it is h*ckin cool. sory kittehsGetty ImagesSave this storySaveSave this storySaveThe only way to explain the reaction to Merriam-Webster’s year-end announcement that “doggo” was one of the dictionary’s “Words We're Watching” is to use another colloquialism: Twitter lost its damn mind.X contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.It wasn’t the first time Merriam, the hippest dictionary that ever was (sorry, Oxford), incorporated internet-beloved words into its corpus; it recently added definitions for the terms “troll,” “woke,” and “hashtag.” Nor was it the first time social media reacted strongly to such a move (see: the Great “Shade” Elation of 2017). But for the prestigious lexical arbiter to acknowledge doggo’s place and popularity was a win for practitioners of “DoggoSpeak,” a specialized vernacular used primarily in memes extolling the cuteness of dogs. (DoggoSpeak includes fun-to-say made-up words like doggo, pupper, flufferino, and doge. You probably don’t have to be fluent to translate, though NPR did a thorough deep-dive on the vocabulary.)Related StoriesYear in ReviewThe Most-read WIRED Culture Stories of 2017Andrea ValdezInternet CultureKim Jong-Un Calling Trump a ‘Dotard’ Is a Language LessonAngela WatercutterInternet CultureThe Internet Defines 'Covfefe'Angela WatercutterThe announcement was also a recognition by Merriam that its original entry for “doggo”—defined as “in hiding—used chiefly in the phrase to lie doggo”—was out of step with its more current incarnation. “The nature of lexicography in general is that it always lags behind language, and that's the case with doggo,” says Merriam-Webster associate editor Kory Stamper. “The real swell of the modern doggo wave came in 2016 and 2017 with the popularization of the WeRateDogs Twitter account.”There’s a certain truth to this. Doggo first popped up on WeRateDogs on April 1, 2016:X contentThis content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.Most PopularPoliticsThe Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable MessBrian BarrettScienceSolar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater SupplyFred PearceSecurityAirbnb Bans All Indoor Security CamerasAmanda HooverScienceStumped by Heat Pumps?Rhett AllainBut while the account brought the word to WeRateDogs’s 5 million followers, Matt Nelson, the account’s founder, is quick to clarify he can’t be credited with its genesis. “I didn’t coin the term,” he says, “but I did recognize that dog-lovers latched on to it quickly.”Actually, there’s a strong case to be made that the word originated in Australia. To start, doggo first gained traction on a Facebook group called Dogspotting, a 10-year-old community that became quite popular in Australia, says internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch.“Australian English has this tendency to make cute pet-names, what's known in the literature as hypocoristics,” McCulloch says. “Like ‘afternoon’ becomes ‘arvo,’ or ‘avocado’ becomes ‘avo,’ or John becomes ‘John-o’.”Ben Bergen, a cognitive science professor at UC San Diego, also notes “the -o suffix is much more common in Australia and Great Britain. Like ‘boy-o’ or nicknames for people, like ‘Jim-o.’”“It's possible the [Australians on Dogspotting] were just using this slang and it caught on as an internet thing because people encountered it in the group,” McCulloch says.McCulloch’s research on doggo led her further down under, to a 1966 document titled “Industrial and intellectual property in Australia, Volume 3” in which the word was referenced as an affectionate term for a dog. (Doggo as a term for dog also made an appearance in a 1994 novel set in Sydney called the Weston Men’s Tennis Club.)But if the term has been around awhile, why did the internet just recently latch on to it?The worldwide popularity of the terms "pupper" (red) and "doggo" (blue) since January 2004.

Google TrendsThere are a couple of explanations for this. The first is that it was circumstantial, that the term happened to hit at a moment when the collective craved something cute. “I would say the term ‘doggo’ caught on because of the rise of the wholesome meme,” McCulloch says. “In the aftermath of the election, and even in 2016, there was this idea that the internet is becoming a more hostile or less friendly place. So here's this kind of feel-good meme that's becoming popular because no one can disagree with the fact that this doggo is cute.”If doggo has been around awhile, why did the internet just recently latch on to it? It might be that the term hit at a moment when the collective craved something cute.That would track with at least part of the reason M-W added it to its list. “There was no precipitating event that led to its being highlighted on the feature, though I'll confess I'm a big fan of @dog_rates on Twitter,” Stamper says, “and it's pretty likely the dog-picture sanity breaks I take while mired in defining work might have led to me thinking more about the word ‘doggo.’”But McCulloch has another theory, one that often explains any shift in internet behavior: the rise of smartphones. “Back when I had a digital camera, first, I didn't always have my digital camera on me. And, if I did, to get those photos off of the digital camera, I had to plug it into my computer, I had to find the cable, upload them, etc. And I wasn't going to do that for someone else's random dog!” she says.“But now, you have a camera with you at all times that has internet connectivity and you can take photos of stuff in your environment and easily share them with people. And sometimes, those photos are of dogs.”(The rise of the smartphone camera could also partially explain a longstanding internet trope: the early internet is for cats and the social internet is for dogs. Felines dominated when people could only upload pictures from their homes, where kittehs rule. But dogs, especially other people’s puppers, can be photographed and shared with Instagram or Facebook from almost anywhere.)Most PopularPoliticsThe Kate Middleton Photo Controversy Is an Inexplicable MessBrian BarrettScienceSolar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater SupplyFred PearceSecurityAirbnb Bans All Indoor Security CamerasAmanda HooverScienceStumped by Heat Pumps?Rhett AllainThe question now is, will doggo stick around? WeRateDogs’ Nelson has seen a fall in the term’s popularity and has subsequently curtailed his own use of it. “I'd say within the past six months, I’ve started to use doggo a little bit less because it doesn't invoke the same reaction that it once did.”The term's best chance of survival is its potential internet-to-IRL crossover appeal. “It definitely has all of the characteristics of a word that could very easily go from online to offline,” McCulloch says. “It started as an offline word; it's very pronounceable; it doesn't rely on punctuation or capitalization or any sort of typographical tricks to make it legible. And, anecdotally, people are less self-conscious about the kind of language they use to talk to their dogs, so they're probably more willing to use slang or cute terms or affectionate terms. That being said, the sharper something rises, the sharper it can fall.”Plus, in the pantheon of persistent palabras, a word like "selfie" had staying power because it defined a new cultural construct: the now-ubiquitous act of pointing a camera at yourself and snapping a pic. Doggo has the misfortune of competing in a crowded “marketplace of words,” Bergen notes. Synonyms, it would seem, are, ahem, a bitch.More Internet LingoThe internet defines "covfefe"Kim Jong-un calling President Trump a "dotard" gave the internet a language lessonOxford dictionary defines sexting and cyberbullyingAndrea Valdez is the editor of WIRED.com. Before arriving at WIRED in 2017, she worked at Texas Monthly for 10 years, first as a fact checker, then as a columnist, and, ultimately, as the editor of texasmonthly.com. She is the author of How to Be a Texan: The Manual. Valdez... 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They're good dogs, Webster.

In these trying times, humanity collectively turns to one source of solace amidst the upheaval and grief.

No, not Pink Floyd.

And not dogs, either, but doggos.

These are doggos.

Doggo has its origins not with good puppers, but with late 19th-century slang:

"Sharks abroad. Breakers ahead. Benjamins on the war-path. Lie doggo. Joe."... "What's the meaning of it? ... And what is 'lying doggo?'"— Time, December 1886

Good question. To lie doggo is to stay hidden or to keep secret—to fly under the radar. The phrase was popularized by Rudyard Kipling, who used it in several of his stories, leading people to believe that it was actually Anglo-Indian in origin.

Why doggo? We can only speculate. Perhaps the phrase was meant to evoke the light sleep of dogs. What we do know is that the word itself does go back to dog, and is likely is simply the word dog with the noun suffix -o, meaning "one that is, has the qualities of, or is associated with."

Lie doggo has had a long life, gaining popularity in serial fiction of the 20th century (particularly in stories of war, espionage, or detective work). But doggo by itself was evocative enough that it began appearing in print occasionally as the name of a dog (or a dog-like object, in this case):

"It's a beastly shame, Doggo," confided Capps to the china pup that he had found his best and most discreet confidant.— Reading Times, 28 Feb. 1907

...when the old oil flickered forth the dollars frolicked into the family coffers like fleas to a well-fed doggo.— Boston Post 25 Dec. 1920

Doggo as a word is clearly catchy. It also shows up in the 1930s as the name of a dog repellant for gardens—the advertisements assure dog owners that the spray is not harmful to dogs—and in 1977, Mary Tyler Moore's new sitcom "We've Got Each Other" was deemed El Doggo, or "pretty bad." But for most of doggo's life, it appeared primarily in the phrase lie doggo to refer to secrecy or dormancy.

By the turn of this millennium, the phrase lie doggo had lost much of its ground in the US (aside from its occasional appearance in crossword puzzles), which primed the language for a surge in use of the other doggo, the pupper-related one:

Despite your billing yourself (in whole bound volumes of e-mail) as a candidate for canine-care sainthood, your ex has as much right to doggo as you do.— Amy Alkon, Palm Beach (Florida) Post, 11 Oct. 2002

Or so it seemed: in truth, the occurrence of the dog doggo hadn't increased in print—it had remained fairly stable for 50 or so years. It's just that lie doggo lost so much ground that we were noticing more of what had always been there.

Doggo remained a casual and occasional word for a dog until 2016, when it became popular as part of the standard vocabulary of one of Twitter's best-loved accounts:

Here's a super majestic doggo and a sunset 11/10 pic.twitter.com/UACnoyi8zu— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) April 2, 2016

Doggo saw a meteoric rise in use in 2017 and continues its upward trajectory, as the nation turns its lonely eyes to dog pictures for comfort and some much-needed encouragement to carry on.

Update: This word was added in September 2023.

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They began to appreciate me and advance me fast, and say, old doggo, what do you think they're paying me now?

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He'll be able to hunt around while the rest of you lie doggo and wait.

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He was lying doggo on the bottom waiting for a fat convoy that should be hugging the shore when three destroyers smelled him out.

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It was not a regular high hat, either, but one of those trick-performing hats which, on signal, will lie doggo or else sit up and beg.

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What Dogs And The “Doggo” Meme Can Teach Us About Inclusion And Consent

Dogs And The “Doggo” Meme Can Teach Us About Inclusion And ConsentMENULifeWhat Dogs And The “Doggo” Meme Can Teach Us About Inclusion And Consent by Samantha EdmondsAug. 24, 2017João Victor XavierNational Dog Day (August 26) is a celebration of all our canine buddies. But recently, "doggos" — a popular internet term for dogs — have proven themselves to be the best, floofiest pups around. In their own words, they bork. They stick out their tongues and do a mlem, a blop. They boop snoots. They bamboozle. Sometimes they are heckin’ concerned. Most importantly, they are always excellent, a fren to everyone they meet.Maybe that all sounded like gibberish to you, but this language of “the doggo” is actually a growing internet culture that is gaining popularity not only due to its sheer cuteness, but because of how the language is interpreted as polite, inclusive, and kind by the people who use it.According to an April 2017 article published by NPR, “DoggoLingo,” as it’s sometimes called, came to be part of the internet vocabulary through Facebook and Twitter pages like Dogspotting (which began to really take off in 2014) and WeRateDogs (founded 2015), which post pictures of dogs alongside descriptions written in their “doggo” language. For example, a heavy dog is “thicc,” the tiny ones are “smol,” and so forth. DoggoLingo mostly involves changing the spelling of standard English words to make them look and sound “cuter” by use of onomatopoeia and extra suffixes.Regina McGinty/Bork Bork I Am DoggoWhat NPR and other outlets have found fascinating about this lexicon is how easy it is to transition words like “woofer,” “pupper,” and “pupperino” into spoken language — and one that is easily comprehended by most English speakers. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch told NPR, “A new cutesy word for a thing you’re already used to using cutesy words for? That's such an easy entry to vocabulary.” The way the language highlights and expands this natural tendency, combined with its accessibility even to unfamiliar speakers, makes DoggoLingo one of the most thriving languages on the Internet.English is a perfectly expressive language, but it doesn’t exactly have the reputation for being inclusive.And while its cuteness is probably the primary reason for its popularity, DoggoLingo can do so much more. It goes beyond just offering humans new ways to cute-speak. This language is surprisingly diverse and inclusive to all kinds of creatures in a way that, all too often, the English language is not. In fact, there are lessons we can learn from the the language of doggos that could change the ways we communicate with each other, particularly when we talk about diversity and consent.The memes exemplifying this trend in the doggo language are largely from the Facebook page Bork Bork I Am Doggo. Despite only being active since July 2016, the page already has over 400,000 followers (and is still growing). Mark Wing, administrator and founder, tells Bustle that he created the page after his own traumatic experience to be “a happy place for people to escape to.” He’s a fan of DoggoLingo “specifically because it’s something universal. Everyone loves dogs, and everyone loves to smile and laugh.”Kat Higgins-Foster/Bork Bork I Am DoggoAnd while Wing didn’t have any expectations for the page to go viral, he’s pleasantly surprised and humbled by the response. He says he often receives messages where “people thank us for making their day a little better, and helping them get through their daily struggles... I like that our page is a small refuge in a world where everyone is mean to each other.”Bork Bork I Am Doggo prides itself on sharing mostly original work, created by both admins and followers. While many of the posts are pictures of single dogs meant only to be funny, the ones that really stand out for their awareness of inclusive language are the memes where doggos meet other kinds of animals.Kat Higgins-Foster/Regina McGinty/Bork Bork I Am DoggoOften these images include an introduction between two animals wherein they ask the new creature what it most likes to be called. The doggo always refers to the other animal as “fren" — their word for “friend” — exemplifying a warm way to welcome someone different, as is the case with the above memes featuring a lamb and a wallaby, respectively. Of the wallaby meme, administrator Kat Higgins-Foster tells Bustle, “I love the doggo’s clumsy attempt at using an expression from the new fren’s native country. The doggo’s heart is in the right place.”The wallaby and lamb memes were created by administrator Regina McGinty, who says that while the “feel good vibe” in them was intentional, she “didn’t think too deeply” about the warm and inclusive way that the doggos approach diversity until it was pointed out. “I love it,” she says, “but also [I’m] not surprised as it does match our personalities.”But doggos don't just model excellent communication when it comes to inclusion. The memes created by Higgins-Foster for the Bork Bork I Am Doggo page consistently show dogs asking for — and receiving — consent before touching another animal (in DoggoLingo, this is doing a "mlem" or "boop"). Better still, many memes both support self-identification / accept diversity and ask for consent. They exemplify what it means to be a good fren to everyone, which is a lesson humans can certainly stand to learn from our doggos.Kat Higgins-Foster/Bork Bork I Am Doggo While many people roll their eyes at the culture surrounding the way we discuss race, gender inclusion, and sexual assault, the truth is the language we use when discussing those subjects matters greatly. And where traditional English (and English speakers) sometimes struggle to adapt fast enough — gender-neutral pronouns, anyone? — DoggoLingo, though perhaps a little silly at first glance, often proves to not only be a balm, but also universal dialogue. Most humans share a common understanding about animals, especially our beloved dogs — their hearts are indelibly pure, and the thing that is most important to them is receiving and maintaining our love (also, treats). In fact, we’re actually hardwired to love each other; our brains produce oxytocin (the same hormone produced by new mothers) just by looking into our dogs’ eyes.Kat Higgins-Foster/Bork Bork I Am DoggoFor the administrators of Bork Bork I Am Doggo, this connection between how we feel about dogs and the language we assume they speak makes perfect sense. “Because we see animals in such a light of goodness, the language naturally lends itself to the expression of that goodness,” says Higgins-Foster.And that language is powerful. “English is a perfectly expressive language, but it doesn’t exactly have the reputation for being inclusive,” says Wing. “I see [DoggoLingo] as sort of a cultural middle ground where people from all over the world feel accepted and welcomed.”Higgins-Foster understands why consent and compassionate curiosity are reoccurring, if subconscious, themes among the doggos memes. “I feel a sense of innocence and morality in the doggos, and I think it comes out naturally in the memes,” she says. “Dogs epitomize unconditional love, purity, and understanding… So, naturally they would be tolerant and considerate. If we create the doggos with a sense of morality and through that comes tolerance and consent, then that tells me [tolerance and consent] are inherently moral and not a matter of opinion.”Get Even More From Bustle — Sign Up For The NewsletterFrom hair trends to relationship advice, our daily newsletter has everything you need to sound like a person who’s on TikTok, even if you aren’t.Bustle DailyUp NextSubmitBy subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicySubscribe to our newsletter >More like thisSEARCHCLOSEEntertainmentSee AllTV & MoviesBooksCelebrityMusicStreamingStyleSee AllCelebrity StyleTrends & ShoppingLuxury FashionFashion NewsBeautySee AllCelebrity BeautyHairSkinNailsMakeupWellnessSee AllHealthRelationshipsSelfLifeSee AllAstrologyTechFoodTravelOriginalsAmplifying Our VoicesVideoChoose an edition:US/UKNewsletterAboutDMCAAdvertiseTermsPrivacyMastheadEditorial StandardsYour Privacy Options© 2024 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserv

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Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers : All Tech Considered DoggoLingo is a rising language on the Internet that's full of cutesy suffixes and onomatopoeias. It might even change the way you talk to your pet.

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"DoggoLingo" is a language trend that's been gaining steam on the Internet in the past few years. Words like doggo, pupper and blep most often accompany a picture or video of a dog and have spread on social media.

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Some dogs are doggos, some are puppers, and others may even be pupperinos. There are corgos and clouds, fluffers and floofs, woofers and boofers. The chunky ones are thicc, and the thin ones are long bois. When they stick out their tongues, they're doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof. Once in a while they do each other a frighten. And whether they're 10/10 or 12/10, they're all h*ckin' good boys and girls. Are you picking up what I'm putting down? If not, you're probably not fluent in DoggoLingo, a language trend that's been gaining steam on the Internet in the past few years. The language most often accompanies a picture or a video of a dog and has spread to all major forms of social media. It might even change the way we talk out loud to our beloved canines.

DoggoLingo, sometimes referred to as doggo-speak, "seems to be quite lexical, there are a lot of distinctive words that are used," says Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch. "It's cutesier than others, too. Doggo, woofer, pupper, pupperino, fluffer — those have all got an extra suffix on the end to make them cuter." McCulloch also notes DoggoLingo is uniquely heavy on onomatopoeias like bork, blep, mlem and blop.

This post uses the term "fat boi" to describe the small doggo in the picture.

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It's no surprise DoggoLingo is made up of cutesy suffixes and onomatopoeias. "You're taking on characteristics of how people would address their animals in the first place," McCulloch says. What's more, DoggoLingo is spoken by humans online, as opposed to in memes like LOLcats, doge and snek where the animals themselves do the talking. This makes DoggoLingo much more accessible, McCulloch notes, and perhaps more likely to find its way into spoken human speech. It wouldn't be surprising if people started to call their Samoyeds fluffers, point out a Labrador's mlem or call an overweight pug a fat boi, as in this Facebook post. In fact, they're probably saying these out loud already. "A new cutesy word for a thing you're already used to using cutesy words for? That's such an easy entry to vocabulary," McCulloch says.

A menagerie of meme-speak DoggoLingo's array of words is a hodgepodge of existing Internet language. For example, the phrase "doing me a frighten," used to describe startled dogs, comes from an image posted in late 2015 according to KnowYourMeme.com. In it, a tiny Rottweiler puppy shocks its parent with a flurry of borks. The parent replies, "stop it son, you are doing me a frighten." The origin of "bork" itself is less clear, but it's clearly onomatopoeic. It's perhaps most well-known thanks to Gabe the Dog, a tiny floof of a Miniature American Eskimo/Pomeranian whose borks have been remixed into countless classic tunes. Jurassic Bork, The Bork Files, Doggos of the Borkribbean, Imperial Borks — the list goes on and on.

Gabe the Dog popularized the term "bork," which is synonymous with bark.

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Tongue sounds have been floating around the Internet for a few years now, but seem to have finally found a home in DoggoLingo. They even have precise meanings. As Redditor blop_cop points out in a comment, "A blop is when a dog pokes his tongue out due to tiredness/forgetfulness and it often is only a small portion of the tongue. A mlem is basically any time a dog is licking their chops, or sticking their tongue out!"

The word "mlem" is the entirety of the caption in this post from a user to the Dogspotting Facebook group.

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A perfect example of a miniature Australian shepherd doing a "mlem" was captured on Facebook, as shown here. Not all of DoggoLingo is canine-bound. "Blep" is commonly used for cats sticking out their tongues, too, as demonstrated on the feline-focused subreddit /r/blep. The constant use of "heck" in DoggoLingo might come from the snek meme, McCulloch says, where snakes try to act tough but are really just loveable losers. Sometimes heck is censored as h*ck. Matt Nelson, who runs the WeRateDogs Twitter account (@dog_rates), says tweets from WeRate popularized h*ck and its derivatives. "I'm sure someone else did that before," he says, "but it was something original to me and I used it to such an extent that people associate it with [@dog_rates] now."

@dog_rates currently has 1.77 million followers. Nelson rates submissions to the account with such lighthearted humor that, when combined with the power of a bombastically cute pup, often go viral. Internet circles define DoggoLingo McCulloch thinks DoggoLingo may have become popularized and perhaps even solidified in this way thanks to accounts like WeRateDogs on Twitter, and also to dog-devoted groups on Facebook with thousands of members. One such group is called Dogspotting. At more than 500,000 members — and gaining around 10,000 a week — it's one of the larger dog-devoted groups on Facebook. The rules are simple. ...Well, OK, they're not that simple.

Here's a pupper before and after being asked "who's a good girl?" Unsure as h*ck. 12/10 hint hint it's you pic.twitter.com/ORiK6jlgdH— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) March 4, 2017

Essentially, members around the world post photos and videos of dogs they happen across in their daily lives. The No Known Dogs rule makes sure people don't spam posts of their own pets, the No Selfies rule keeps the posts dogs-only (no humans!), and the Don't Drive and Spot rule keeps spotters safe. The result: thousands of doggos and puppers flood the Dogspotting group — and members' newsfeeds — every single day. Of course, with members constantly posting and writing captions, the group is a breeding ground for DoggoLingo. "We can't help but be socially influenced by each other," McCulloch says. "The fun part of a meme is participating in something that other people recognize." So, if one person calls a fat Corgi a loaf (like in the Dogspotting Facebook post shown here) and others find it funny, it's easy for terms like that to proliferate and eventually become part of a language like DoggoLingo.

"Loaf" is used to describe the Corgi in this post.

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Dogspotting may even be the birthplace of DoggoLingo's titular term "doggo." Though created in 2008, Dogspotting really took off in the summer of 2014, particularly in Australia. This is significant because, as McCulloch points out, adding "-o" to words is very Australian. For example, where we'd say def to abbreviate the word definitely, Australians would say defo.

So were Australians posting in Dogspotting saying "doggo," which English-speakers around the world picked up on and turned into a viral Internet word? "That makes a shocking amount of sense," says John Savoia, who founded Dogspotting and runs the page with Reid Paskiewicz and Jeff Wallen. "I bet you anything [doggo] was used before Dogspotting and we just made it part of the lexicon," Paskiewicz says. James Moffatt, a performance artist who grew up in Adelaide and is not a member of Dogspotting, says he remembers doggo being used "as an affectionate diminutive to refer to dogs throughout my childhood." All in all, it's possible that doggo got a boost shortly after more Australians joined Dogspotting. Pages like Ding de la Doggo may have also assisted its slingshot into meme stardom.

A canine oasis Dogs' wholesomeness could be why groups like Dogspotting and accounts like WeRateDogs have become so popular. They're an escape from a news cycle that's become terrifying and depressing for so many. Nelson isn't sure why exactly dogs are so genuinely heartwarming. "Maybe they represent this sort of unconditional love that we strive for," he says, "or they just embody this innocent perfection that we can't really find in ourselves or immediately in other animals."

"Good afternoon class today we're going to learn what makes a good boy so good" 13/10 pic.twitter.com/f1h2Fsalv9— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) December 7, 2016

"Dogs in general are wholesome and uplifting," says Dogspotting moderator Molly Bloomfield. "Irrelevant of your political views, your gender, your socioeconomic status; everyone loves dogs and dogs love everyone." To preserve this oasis and prevent conflict among members, Dogspotting doesn't allow its members to take political stands in their posts. "We try our hardest to be fair to everyone," Wallen says. "We allow spots from rallies, protests and such, but we don't allow people to project their agendas onto the spotted dogs." For example, a Dogspotter could say, "I spotted this pup at the anti-Trump rally," but not, "This dog hates Trump."

This Dogspotter followed the rules perfectly, spotting a "beautiful doggo" named Oreo at a Planned Parenthood rally in Illinois.

Dogspotting keeps its users from getting political. In this post, the black and white dog shown is said to be at a Planned Parenthood rally, but not stating any political allegiance.

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Rule breakers are banned, but can appeal to the Dogspotting People's Court for re-entry. "We want everybody to get back in," Paskiewicz says, "as long as they don't do it again." As WeRateDogs followers are constantly reminded, all dogs are good dogs. And just about every dog posted on Dogspotting is accompanied by a tone of wonder, gushiness, or pure elation. "In this time of politics hijacking our social media, people need dogs to smile and enjoy the good things in life," Paskiewicz says. "I feel honored to be a part of this social happening." "Dogspotting is relentlessly positive," says Joey Faulkner, a Dogspotter and Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh who's blogged about the group in the past. As Bloomfield puts it, "Dogs are here! How can the world be evil when dogs exist?" Even the way Dogspotting is run is wholesome. Other dog-devoted Facebook groups like Cool Dog Group and Big Hecking Group of Dang Doggos aren't seen as competition to Dogspotting, Paskiewicz says. "The more dogs, the better."

This spot, known as Existentialist Paradox Pupcake, is a favorite of Dogspotting admin Reid Paskiewicz and moderator Molly Bloomfield. It features a pupper on the streets of Venice.

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And if Dogspotting ever becomes profitable, Paskiewicz says a fixed percentage of profits will go to a respected dog charity. Dogspotting is so positive and complex that Paskiewicz has felt the need to specify during interviews that the group is not a cult. The phrase "we are not a cult" has even spread to posts and T-shirts. It's one of many Dogspotting mottos, along with "the dogs must flow," a reference from the novel Dune, and "be excellent to each other," from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. The newest slogan? "Come on in, the dogs are fine," Paskiewicz says. DoggoLingo in the dictionary This dog-centric positivity has driven the popularity of DoggoLingo to new heights. Even Merriam-Webster is aware of terms like doggo and pupper. Though they have a long way to go before they're eligible for dictionary-entry — they need to be used in published, edited work over an extended period of time — they're definitely candidates.

"I personally like both," says Emily Brewster, an associate editor at Merriam-Webster, Inc. "I think it's great when people play with their language, and the new 'doggo' is way more fun than the unrelated adverb meaning 'in hiding.' " McCulloch thinks some DoggoLingo terms have staying power, too: "I wouldn't be surprised if we see 'doggo' around in 50 years and people never realize it came from a meme." Jessica Boddy is a former NPR science desk intern. You can follow her @JessicaBoddy.

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