do v [du:z] SED, throughout vol iv, has many quotations with weakly stressed auxiliary do in s w cties, for example in animal cries, 345-52: [bulls da moo], etc.
   1 To carry out (an action).
   T 133-64 'Whatever you dooz,' he said, 'don't sell the bridle.' T 547-68 'No odds what he dooz,' [she] said. 'All he dooz [is] plank the money out, pay it, and go on.' 1976 HOLLETT 1 'Say the salmon weigh ten pound, you only get paid for nine. And if he weigh twenty pound you get paid for nineteen, always doed that.' [1970s] 1988 Maritime Anthro Studies i, p. 98 'You're goin' to take the small fish, 'cause that's what countin' dooz.'
   2 Aux (level of stress not recoverable from printed sources); do be, don't be: see BE.
   1903 Daily News 7 Oct "Where your Money Goes": Oh, where do our money go.../For the voters like to know. [1977] 1985 LEHR & BEST (eds) 51 "The Dole Song": We'll take on board our caplin boys, and we'll then bait up our gear;/We'll stick her to the Western Grounds if the weather it do keep clear. 1987 FIZZARD 189 'I said "That's a good one, e'den it? We won't be long going down if they do change their mind on us".'
   3 Pro-verb.
   1924 ENGLAND 179 'An' if ye speak to un, he mind ye of a squid squirtin'.' 'Oh, he do, do he?' The Old Man bridled with virtuous indignation. [1932] 1987 Nfld Qtly lxxxiii (1), 2 "The Morning Lesson": I hope/They know their lessons. Mary do I know/By the easy way she rattles off the words. P 148-83 What they don't know don't hurt 'em, do it?

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