'dah' is not a word in standard written English.
It is used primarily in baby talk, and so does not have a place in formal written English.
"It felt that everyone was speaking in broken rhythms and a very modern Shakespeare form of delivery, and then my line would come – lah di dah di dah.
For instance, with sounds such as "bah" and "dah", the "b" and "d" sounds are succeeded by the "ah" after an interval of roughly 40 milliseconds.
They form the transition (dah, dah, dah dah, or G, A, B, C, depending on your musical ability) between the first bit ("God save our gracious Queen, long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen") and the second bit ("Send her victorious etc").
@Bradyyates tweets: "#PoliticallyCorrectFootballChants "2 world wars and 1 world cup, doo dah, but you've won 3 world cups, 2 euros & your ecomony is very strong".
Then Wynton, elaborating on a part within the phrase, added, "Ban, ban, do, do, dah, dang".
Duke said, and sang, "Boom, dee deedle, dee deedle, boom tah tahdle tah, dee dee dee dah dah!" "I still think it has too many notes for a trio," Billy said.
(Irish wolfhound, of course: la-di-dah, but not ostentatiously so).
The love, the care, dah-dah dah-dah dah-dah.
But do not touch: the yarn is so delicate that it is packaged by robots that whistle "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" as they zoom around doing the work of 700 men.Even more striking are the attitudes at Hazira.
The net result of this is that he unmasks as the Zodiac killer - ta-dah! - the suspect the police have been after all along.
And if it pulls away from the heaviest issues – food banks, alcoholism, social-service swoops –then it's dull and sanitised, but when it sharp-focuses on harsh events, well, ta-dah, it's "poverty porn".
