DCHP-2

duo-tang Duo-tang, Duotang, Duo Tang, duotang DCHP-2 (July 2016)

• n. — proprietary

  a folder made of card stock or plastic in various colours, with three fasteners to hold down loose-leaf paper (see Image 1).

  Type: 5. Frequency — Duo-Tang is an American product. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Paw Paw, Michigan (Bloomberg Business website). As Chart 1 shows, duo-tang is not widely used in the US, but is very frequent in Canada.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "Duo-Tang", which is marked "Cdn proprietary".

  See also: exercise book  

  • Combinations exist in terms such as Duotang-bound book (see the 1987 quotation) or duo-tang folder (see the 2006 quotation).

  • 1963  Duo-Tang Covers
  • 1971  FREE - Duo Tang Covers - 2 per pack of 275 Sheets Loose Leaf Fillers 
  • 1987  Printed with the co-operation of Empire Life Insurance Co., the Duotang-bound book runs the gamut from traditional and new games and songs to finger play and rhymes. 
  • 1991  At Shoppers Drug Mart in Park Royal Shopping Centre yesterday, cashiers had their noses buried in duo-tang folders to see whether provincial sales tax, GST or both should be charged on each item. 
  • 1992  Duotang folders are only 29 cents each at Woodward's - a much better buy than the fancy cardboard folders with holograms on the front that Woodward's is selling for $1.99. 
  • 2006  The list includes everything from pens, pencils, erasers, rulers, crayons, scissors, note books, math sets (protractor and compass), felt markers, pencil cases, three-ring paper, duo-tang folders, and highlighters. 
  • 2007  Ilana Spector, 42, doesn't remember her parents scouring stores for the last purple Duo-Tang in the city. 
  • 2015  For math these third-graders get off easy with one 1/2-inch hardcover binder, 5 page dividers and a white duotang. English makes up for that lapse, however, requiring 5 duotangs - red, green, yellow, blue and orange. And, oh yes, 1 small exercise book that has to be 1/2-plain and 1/2-ruled. There are also required supplies for ethics and something called portfolio but who's counting.
  • 2015  The back-to-school supply lists for a student entering Grade 6-8 add up in a hurry: 6 blue/black pens: $2 2 red pens: $2 Markers: $6 Crayons: $6 Pencil crayons: $4 Pencil case: $4 4 large glue sticks: $10 8 Duo Tangs: $8 1-inch non-zippered binder: $6 5 packages of loose leaf paper: $10 1 package of dividers: $2 3 packages of sticky notes: $4